The library target directly depends on SDL_revision.h

Makefile.in

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ LT_RELEASE  = @LT_RELEASE@
 LT_REVISION = @LT_REVISION@
 LT_LDFLAGS  = -no-undefined -rpath $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) -release $(LT_RELEASE) -version-info $(LT_CURRENT):$(LT_REVISION):$(LT_AGE)
 
-all: $(srcdir)/configure Makefile update-revision $(objects) $(objects)/$(TARGET) $(objects)/$(SDLMAIN_TARGET)
+all: $(srcdir)/configure Makefile $(objects) $(objects)/$(TARGET) $(objects)/$(SDLMAIN_TARGET)
 
 $(srcdir)/configure: $(srcdir)/configure.in
 	@echo "Warning, configure.in is out of date"
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ update-revision:
 
 .PHONY: all update-revision install install-bin install-hdrs install-lib install-data uninstall uninstall-bin uninstall-hdrs uninstall-lib uninstall-data clean distclean dist $(OBJECTS:.lo=.d)
 
-$(objects)/$(TARGET): $(OBJECTS) $(VERSION_OBJECTS)
+$(objects)/$(TARGET): update-revision $(OBJECTS) $(VERSION_OBJECTS)
 	$(LIBTOOL) --mode=link $(CC) -o $@ $(OBJECTS) $(VERSION_OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(LT_LDFLAGS)
 
 $(objects)/$(SDLMAIN_TARGET): $(SDLMAIN_OBJECTS)