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diff --git a/subdirmk/regen.mk.in b/subdirmk/regen.mk.in
index 2661ee1..bc05e72 100644
--- a/subdirmk/regen.mk.in
+++ b/subdirmk/regen.mk.in
@@ -14,20 +14,29 @@ $(CONFIG_STATUS): $(top_srcdir)/$(CONFIGURE)
 
 MAKEFILES += subdirmk/regen.mk
 
-main.mk $(MAKEFILES): .config.status.needed
-	./$<
-.INTERMEDIATE: .config.status.needed
-.config.status.needed: 						\
+MAKEFILE_TEMPLATES += $(top_srcdir)/Perdir.mk.in
+
+main.mk $(MAKEFILES): .makefiles.stamp ;
+.makefiles.stamp: 						\
 		$(top_srcdir)/subdirmk/generate			\
 		$(CONFIG_STATUS)				\
-		$(top_srcdir)/Perdir.mk.in			\
+		$(MAKEFILE_TEMPLATES)				\
 		$(foreach m,$(MAKEFILES),$(top_srcdir)/$(m).in)
-	: $?
-	set -e; printf >$@.tmp "#!/bin/sh\nset -e\n%s %s"	\
-		"./$(CONFIG_STATUS)"				\
-		"$(if	$(filter-out %.mk.in, $?),,		\
-			$(patsubst %.mk.in,%.mk,$?))"	;	\
-		chmod +x $@.tmp; mv -f $@.tmp $@
+# This filtering arranges that we can often run config.status to
+# generate only particular output files.  We look for *inputs* that
+# have changed.  If the only inputs that have changed are ones that we
+# know affect only one output (Subdir.mk.in and regen.mk.in), we pass
+# config.status the corresponding output file names.  Otherwise we
+# pass nothing and config.status does them all.  We need to mention
+# regen.mk.in twice because if $(top_srcdir) is `.', make elides the
+# directory part from $?.
+	./$(CONFIG_STATUS) $(if					\
+		$(filter-out Subdir.mk.in %/Subdir.mk.in	\
+			subdirmk/regen.mk.in			\
+			$(top_srcdir)/subdirmk/regen.mk.in	\
+			, $?),,					\
+		$(patsubst %.mk.in,%.mk,$(filter %.mk.in,$?)))
+	touch $@
 
 realclean:: clean
 	$(RM) config.status config.log