--- a/Makefile.in.in	Mon Aug 13 11:26:13 2007 +0200
+++ b/Makefile.in.in	Mon Aug 13 11:27:01 2007 +0200
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 LANG = C
 LC_ALL = C
 RM = rm -f
+MAKEPATH=./lib-src/make-path
 pwd = /bin/pwd
 
 ## ==================== Things `configure' Might Edit ====================
@@ -273,30 +274,31 @@
 ## - src/depend from src/*.[ch]
 .PHONY: config configure depend
 config: configure depend
-configure: ${srcdir}/configure
-${srcdir}/configure: ${srcdir}/configure.in
+configure: ${srcdir}/configure ${srcdir}/lib-src/config.values.in
+
+${srcdir}/configure : ${srcdir}/configure.in
 	cd ${srcdir} && autoconf
-	cd ${srcdir} && /bin/sh lib-src/config.values.sh
 
-depend ${srcdir}/src/depend:
-	cd ${srcdir}/src && \
-		perl ./make-src-depend > depend.tmp && \
-		$(RM) depend && mv depend.tmp depend
+${srcdir}/lib-src/config.values.in : ${srcdir}/configure
+	cd ${srcdir} && $(SHELL) lib-src/config.values.sh
+
+depend ${srcdir}/src/depend :
+	cd ${srcdir}/src && $(RECURSIVE_MAKE) depend
 
 ## Build XEmacs and recompile out-of-date and missing .elc files along
 ## the way.
 all-elc all-elcs: lib-src lwlib dump-elcs src
-	MAKE='$(MAKE)' EMACS='./src/$(PROGNAME)' sh ${srcdir}/lib-src/update-elc.sh
+	MAKE='$(MAKE)' EMACS='./src/$(PROGNAME)' $(SHELL) ${srcdir}/lib-src/update-elc.sh
 
 ## Sub-target for all-elc.
 dump-elc dump-elcs: ${GENERATED_HEADERS} FRC.dump-elcs
 	cd ./src && $(RECURSIVE_MAKE) dump-elcs
 
 autoloads: src
-	MAKE='$(MAKE)' EMACS='./src/$(PROGNAME)' sh ${srcdir}/lib-src/update-autoloads.sh
+	MAKE='$(MAKE)' EMACS='./src/$(PROGNAME)' $(SHELL) ${srcdir}/lib-src/update-autoloads.sh
 
 custom-loads:
-	MAKE='$(MAKE)' EMACS='./src/$(PROGNAME)' sh ${srcdir}/lib-src/update-custom.sh
+	MAKE='$(MAKE)' EMACS='./src/$(PROGNAME)' $(SHELL) ${srcdir}/lib-src/update-custom.sh
 
 finder: src
 	@echo "Building finder database ..."
@@ -323,7 +325,7 @@
 	@(echo "/*	Do not edit this file!" ; \
 	  echo "  	Automatically generated from ${srcdir}/etc/Emacs.ad" ; \
 	  echo " */" ; \
-	  /bin/sh ${srcdir}/lib-src/ad2c ${srcdir}/etc/Emacs.ad ) > \
+	  $(SHELL) ${srcdir}/lib-src/ad2c ${srcdir}/etc/Emacs.ad ) > \
 	  src/Emacs.ad.h
 
 src/sheap-adjust.h:
@@ -428,6 +430,7 @@
 # endif /* __CYGWIN32__ */
 #endif /* WINDOWSNT */
 	if test "${prefix}" != "${exec_prefix}"; then \
+	  $(MAKEPATH) ${exec_prefix}/lib/${instvardir}; \
 	  for dir in \
 		lib/${inststaticdir} \
 	 	lib/${instvardir}/etc \
@@ -487,9 +490,8 @@
 	@echo "${lispdir}"
 
 gzip-el:
-	${srcdir}/lib-src/gzip-el.sh ${lispdir}
+	$(SHELL) ${srcdir}/lib-src/gzip-el.sh ${lispdir}
 
-MAKEPATH=./lib-src/make-path
 ## Build all the directories to install XEmacs in.
 ## Since we may be creating several layers of directories,
 ## (e.g. /usr/local/lib/${PROGNAME}-20.5/sparc-sun-solaris2.6), we use