diff -Naurp elinks-0.11.5-orig/Makefile.lib elinks-0.11.5/Makefile.lib
--- elinks-0.11.5-orig/Makefile.lib	2008-11-30 13:30:08.000000000 +0100
+++ elinks-0.11.5/Makefile.lib	2008-11-30 19:50:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -95,9 +95,14 @@ endif
 
 # All files in $(OBJS) and any $(subdir)/lib.o are linked into lib.o.
 # Sort them to filter out duplicated and get uniform order.
+SUBDIR_LIB_O_DEPS = \
+ $(foreach subdir,$(sort $(SUBDIRS)),$(subdir)/$(LIB_O_NAME))
+
 LIB_O_DEPS = \
- $(sort $(filter-out $(LIB_O_NAME),$(OBJS))) \
- $(foreach subdir,$(sort $(SUBDIRS)),$(wildcard $(subdir)/$(LIB_O_NAME)))
+ $(sort $(filter-out $(LIB_O_NAME),$(OBJS))) $(SUBDIR_LIB_O_DEPS)
+
+$(SUBDIR_LIB_O_DEPS):
+	@$(call ncmd,recmake,$(subst /$(LIB_O_NAME),,$@),all) || exit 1;
 
 $(LIB_O_NAME): $(LIB_O_DEPS)
 	$(call cmd,ld_objs)
@@ -222,7 +227,8 @@ $(RULES_LOCAL):
 
 # Default deps
 rule_deps = $(1)-recursive $(1)-default $(1)-local
-all:	  $(call rule_deps,all)
+all:	  all-default all-local
+	@$(MAKE) all-recursive
 install:  $(call rule_deps,install)
 clean:	  $(call rule_deps,clean)
 cleanall: $(call rule_deps,cleanall)