The version of make on Tru64 5.1 has a special form $(VAR/foo/bar) for certain kinds of substitutions, and apparently its parser rejects the reference $(DEPTARGETS_._../..) that comes up in some of our generated Makefiles, used as a scheme for automating per-directory processing when we generate multiple Makefiles from one config.status script. This comes from using $ (DEPTARGETS_@srcdir@_@CONFIG_RELTOPDIR@) in config/post.in, when running configure in the source tree. It may be that $(SUBDIRS_@srcdir@) is going to have the same problem. Workaround: Use GNU make.