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What is it with the dependency on config.status

by Jan Engelhardt-3 :: Rate this Message:

I have seen user-induced lines in Makefile.am like these in a handful
of packages:

${pkgconfig_DATA}: ${top_builddir}/config.status

Given that automake 1.11.1/autoconf 2.68 seem to automatically recreate
files specified in AC_CONFIG_FILES when configure.ac is changed, what is
the actual purpose/significance of this line?

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