This sounds like a misconfiguration on your part. I've never had this problem with docker before. Are you sure it's not your makefile skipping something because

This sounds like a misconfiguration on your part. I've never had this problem with docker before. Are you sure it's not your makefile skipping something because you haven't made the docker bits phony targets (if you're using make as a "script runner", everything should be a phony target. A sign that you're using the wet tool, but I digress).