+.SH PREVENTING SPURIOUS BUILDS
+.PP
+When nothing has changed you might not really want to rebuild everything and
+gob provides options --no-touch (since 2.0.13) and --no-touch-headers to avoid
+this. When working with build systems such as automake you have to be more
+careful as just using those options can cause automake to get confused and you
+will need to use something like the following:
+.nf
+
+ foo_SOURCES = foo.gob foo.gob.stamp foo.c foo.h foo-private.h
+ BUILT_SOURCES = foo.gob.stamp
+ MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = foo.gob.stamp
+
+ %.gob.stamp: %.gob
+ @GOB2@ --no-touch $<
+ @touch $@
+
+.fi
+