Improvement suggested by Sjoerd: use $(MAKE)

in boot target and use $(srcdir)/Makefile.pre.in

diff --git a/Misc/Makefile.pre.in b/Misc/Makefile.pre.in
index 1e14e6b3bf2877c8adf0dd78ee61237bc790e5bd..3621314b0442744952c85fa4655b902e1f8072c4 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Misc/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -244,10 +244,11 @@ boot:
        VERSION=`python -c "import sys; print sys.version[:3]"`; \
        installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"`; \
        exec_installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.exec_prefix"`; \
-       make -f Makefile.pre.in Makefile VPATH=$(VPATH) srcdir=$(srcdir) \
+       $(MAKE) -f $(srcdir)/Makefile.pre.in VPATH=$(VPATH) srcdir=$(srcdir) \
                VERSION=$$VERSION \
                installdir=$$installdir \
-               exec_installdir=$$exec_installdir
+               exec_installdir=$$exec_installdir \
+               Makefile
 
 # Handy target to remove intermediate files and backups
 clean: