1) In the Extending node of the automake (1.10.2) manual, there's a typo: now: respected by `automake' to ensure the user always have the last word. new: respected by `automake' to ensure the user always has the last word.
Also, it might be clearer to make each of the following two sentences into an @item. 2) Anyway, what I'm really writing about is ... I gather there is no install-local target. Or any other way to run additional commands at install time, after install-exec and install-data have run. The usefulness is to run a post-install command installed by install-exec, using data installed by install-data. I need to do this in the TeX tree. I worked around it by using a different rule that depends on install, which is fine, so this isn't make-or-break or anything. I just wanted to suggest it. Or is there another way to accomplish it? I guess install: could be made into a double-colon target, but that doesn't exactly seem right either. Thanks, Karl