Strange behavior on build

[David D. Hagood]

I'm having a strange behavior trying to build Wine on my machine at work 
(which is a modified RH7.3 machine):

First of all, if I attempt to do a standard CVS checkout followed by a 
make depend, the make depend failes with a "dlls - no such directory" 
error, even though it exists.

Changing SHELL=/bin/sh to SHELL=/bin/bash in Make.rules and re-running 
configure fixes this, but then I get stuck in a loop building - it looks 
like the makefile starts building the dependancy "wine", then builds 
"libs", then decides it needs to build "wine" to build "libs" and starts 
that, then builds "libs"....

I'm at a bit of a loss to explain the behavior, so does anybody have any 
good suggestions?

Versions:
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i586-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu
Linux version 2.4.20-openmosix1 (root@(none)) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 
(Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)) #1 Sun Jan 12 04:18:51 CST 2003

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