[...] running the command
`make maintainer-clean' should not delete `configure' even if
`configure' can be remade using a rule in the Makefile. More
generally, `make maintainer-clean' should not delete anything that
needs to exist in order to run `configure' and then begin to build
the program. This is the only exception; `maintainer-clean' should
delete everything else that can be rebuilt.
"Hello world!" linked against libselinux parses /proc/mounts and
whatever else on startup, even when the lib is not needed at all.
Not funny! Get rid of that thing where it's not absolutely needed.
None of these rules is supposed to be changed by users, so move
them out of /etc. Custom rules, and automatically generated rules
stay in /etc. All rules are still processed in lexical order,
regardless which directory they live in.