diff --git a/examples/Makefile b/examples/Makefile
index 00bfbcfff006146bf5eaa48e4bbe7df95c5202f1..5db3878fc4947e5f7a5f943ceaed81804883a8ee 100644
--- a/examples/Makefile
+++ b/examples/Makefile
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ distclean::
 	$(MAKE) LaTeX-Make-local-uninstall TEXMF_INSTALL_ROOT_DIR=texmf
 	$(RM) -rv texmf
 
-texmf/scripts/latex-make/LaTeX.mk:
+../src/LaTeX.mk:
 	$(MAKE) -C ../src
+
+texmf/scripts/latex-make/LaTeX.mk: ../src/LaTeX.mk
 	$(MAKE) -f ../src/LaTeX.mk MAKE="$(MAKE) -f ../src/LaTeX.mk" LaTeX-Make-local-install TEXMF_INSTALL_ROOT_DIR=texmf TEXINPUTS=../src TEXMFSCRIPTS=../src
-	ls -l $@