autotools: force make not to rebuild configure/Makefile

Question

I have a project with autotools: automake, autoconf.

I want to prohibit make from remaking files configure, Makefile.in, etc;

Answer 1

touch confdb/*.m4
touch configure.in
touch *.m4
touch *.am
touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in
touch *config.h.in */*config.h.in
touch configure
touch config.status
touch config.h
touch Makefile

Problems with automake & cvs are described here http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/automake/CVS.html