I too had a complicated Makefile for my dissertation, but since then I've learned to use latexmk which seems to more or less do everything for you... (ok, I gu

I too had a complicated Makefile for my dissertation, but since then I've learned to use latexmk which seems to more or less do everything for you... (ok, I guess I still often have a Makefile that calls latexmk and sometimes produces some figures from scripts)