diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 416b75f4..9c478aee 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -102,3 +102,7 @@ o yupdate: fix in comment handling
 1.1.7-0
 -------
 o big changes everywhere, triggered by different uclnt thread scheme
+
+1.1.7-1
+-------
+o preserving targets over config target invocation
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 03cea911..9aa6f8ad 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -31,5 +31,3 @@ include $(MODDIR)/make/rpmdist.mk
 endif
 
 include $(MODDIR)/make/autoconf.mk
-
-
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 23a44ef5..3d39b781 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.1.5-3-dev
+1.1.7-1-dev
diff --git a/make/autoconf.mk b/make/autoconf.mk
index 59122340..3fa56fa2 100644
--- a/make/autoconf.mk
+++ b/make/autoconf.mk
@@ -3,16 +3,21 @@
 # contact@jannet.de
 # $Id$
 
+CONFIG_ACDONE := $(wildcard config.acdone)
 CLEAN += $(wildcard *.acdone)
 DISTCLEAN += configure config.log autoscan.log configure.ac config.status
 AC_FILES_IN = $(shell find . -name '*.in' | grep -ve "contrib\|dist")
 AC_FILES    = $(basename $(AC_FILES_IN))
 
 all: config $(AC_FILES)
+	if [ -z "$(CONFIG_ACDONE)" ]; then make $@; fi
 config: config.acdone $(AC_FILES)
 install: config $(AC_FILES)
+	if [ -z "$(CONFIG_ACDONE)" ]; then make $@; fi
+distclean: confclean
 confclean:
-	rm -f $(DISTCLEAN) $(CLEAN) $(AC_FILES)
+	rm -rf $(DISTCLEAN) $(CLEAN) $(AC_FILES) autom4te.cache
+
 configure.ac: configure.ac.tmpl VERSION
 	cat $< | sed -e "s/_VERSION_/`cat VERSION | sed 's/-dev//'`/" > $@