Karl Berry writes:

> Sam, if your situation needs to remove .deps at make clean, how about:
>
> clean-local:
>        rm -rf .deps
>
> It does not seem plausible to me to change automake's behavior in this
> regard at this late date. It would surely cause a lot of trouble in a
> lot of packages. --best, karl.

Yeah, that's the solution that I think I'll go with.

It's just that in my worldview there's only one make. One make to rule them  
all. One make to compile them. One make to bring all dependencies together,  
and with the linker bind them.

gmake.