diff --git a/am-shared/tools-spellcheckers-fstbased-mobile_weights-dir-include.am b/am-shared/tools-spellcheckers-fstbased-mobile_weights-dir-include.am
index 79fd3100..f1ded5b5 100644
--- a/am-shared/tools-spellcheckers-fstbased-mobile_weights-dir-include.am
+++ b/am-shared/tools-spellcheckers-fstbased-mobile_weights-dir-include.am
@@ -38,19 +38,19 @@ mob_corpus_size_limit_command=$(shell \
 	$(AM_V_GEN)$(HFST_TXT2FST) $(HFST_FLAGS) -f openfst-tropical $< -o $@
 
 # sort the clean corpus:
-%.sort.txt: weights/%.clean.txt
-	$(AM_V_GEN)sort < $< > $@
+.generated/%.sort.txt: weights/%.clean.txt $(GENDIR)
+	$(AM_V_GEN)LC_ALL=C.utf8 sort < $< > $@
 
 # token count:
-%.wordcount.txt: %.sort.txt
+.generated/%.wordcount.txt: .generated/%.sort.txt
 	$(AM_V_GEN)wc -l < $< > $@
 
 # Unique the sorted, clean corpus:
-mob_%.uniq.txt: %.sort.txt
+.generated/mob_%.uniq.txt: .generated/%.sort.txt
 	$(AM_V_GEN)uniq -c < $< | sort -nr $(mob_corpus_size_limit_command) > $@
 
 # type count:
-mob_%.typecount.txt: mob_%.uniq.txt
+.generated/mob_%.typecount.txt: .generated/mob_%.uniq.txt
 	$(AM_V_GEN)wc -l < $< > $@
 
 # calculate unit weight, smoothed using ALPHA:
@@ -66,16 +66,16 @@ mob_%.typecount.txt: mob_%.uniq.txt
 #		| $(BC) -l > $@
 #
 # add tropical weights to the corpus:
-mob_%.tropical.txt: mob_%.uniq.txt %.wordcount.txt mob_%.typecount.txt
+.generated/mob_%.tropical.txt: .generated/mob_%.uniq.txt .generated/%.wordcount.txt .generated/mob_%.typecount.txt
 	$(AM_V_GEN)cat $< |\
-		$(GAWK) -v CS="$$(cat $*.wordcount.txt)" \
-				-v DS="$$(cat mob_$*.typecount.txt)" \
+		$(GAWK) -v CS="$$(cat .generated/$*.wordcount.txt)" \
+				-v DS="$$(cat .generated/mob_$*.typecount.txt)" \
 				-v ALPHA=$(ALPHA)                \
 				-f $(GTCORE)/scripts/uniq_count2tropical_weight.awk \
 				> $@
 
 # build an fst of surface forms with tropical weights for each word form:
-.generated/mob_%.surfs.hfst: mob_%.tropical.txt $(GENDIR)
+.generated/mob_%.surfs.hfst: .generated/mob_%.tropical.txt
 	$(AM_V_STR2FST)cat $< |\
 		$(HFST_STRINGS2FST) -j $(HFST_FLAGS) -f openfst-tropical -o $@
 
@@ -89,10 +89,10 @@ mob_%.tropical.txt: mob_%.uniq.txt %.wordcount.txt mob_%.typecount.txt
 
 # Add the unit weight to each unit in compounds, both dynamic and lexical:
 .generated/mob_unitweighted.hfst: $(UW_SPELLER_SRC) \
-                   $(MOB_UNITWEIGHT)         \
+                   .generated/$(MOB_UNITWEIGHT)         \
                    $(srcdir)/weights/word-boundary.txt
 	$(AM_V_REWEIGHT)$(HFST_REWEIGHT) $(HFST_FLAGS) \
-		-e -a $$(cat $(MOB_UNITWEIGHT)) $< \
+		-e -a $$(cat .generated/$(MOB_UNITWEIGHT)) $< \
 		-o $@
 
 # Keep these intermediate targets when building using --debug: