diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 30cb0bc8d6a..0df6ef10d98 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ __pycache__/
 # Generated by sage_setup.autogen
 /src/sage/ext/interpreters
 !/src/sage/ext/interpreters/meson.build
+!/src/sage/ext/interpreters/README
 
 # Generated Cython files
 *.so
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 53d2c689843..96d1ba62e94 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ sagelib-clean:
 	     rm -rf c_lib .cython_version cython_debug; \
 	     rm -rf build; find . -name '*.pyc' -o -name "*.so" | xargs rm -f; \
 	     rm -f $$(find . -name "*.pyx" | sed 's/\(.*\)[.]pyx$$/\1.c \1.cpp/'); \
-	     rm -rf sage/ext/interpreters) \
+	     cd sage/ext/interpreters/ && rm -f *.so *.c *.h *.py* *.pxd) \
 	    && (cd "$(SAGE_ROOT)/build/pkgs/sagelib/src/" && rm -rf build); \
 	fi
 
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 4d5e7295f5b..2de9931e4fc 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=490f6d988c1c4c0786a0c8b36e708db56e17bfa6
-sha256=2e2b6821c9abd7d2b910edb1237f3622e985a2321cf1eedb2161b714494c6643
+sha1=cc7dbcbd87a88429a2e1d0a9265d1572446e4f8b
+sha256=ba616d02dd36080516e98abe89ef9ce527e005fdf2d3f6c5e7625950feb14960
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index 95d7fe86650..89f81c609c4 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-93661cbe00c3e83691d6ed8c64586163cfdae62f
+c904ef57e5a46f96e408710dd18c9a453927bf51
diff --git a/src/sage/ext/interpreters/README b/src/sage/ext/interpreters/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1e42d921e68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/sage/ext/interpreters/README
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+The files in this directory, except meson.build, are autogenerated by sage_setup.autogen