From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:20:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: dependency fixlet
X-Git-Tag: Release-1-2~29
X-Git-Url: https://sourceware.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=be7aa677dcf69c03f4e2c0fbe6434216e074ed46;p=automake.git

dependency fixlet
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ce8e5751..0b1a26a6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue May 13 08:20:02 1997  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
+
+	* automake.in (handle_dependencies): Don't generate dependencies
+	if DEP_FILES would be empty.
+
 Sun May 11 13:59:14 1997  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
 
 	* config.guess: New version from FSF.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index ebbca1c3..947d9248 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+* define LINK if a program is mentioned, even if no C sources appear
+
+* BUILT_SOURCES should not be distributed, even when they appear in
+  another _SOURCES line. [? or maybe just leave this up to the
+  to-be-defined generic distribution method ]
+
 * in --cygnus, clean-info not generated at top level
 
 * what if an element of a scanned variable looks like
diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in
index 506f98ee..471fd588 100755
--- a/automake.in
+++ b/automake.in
@@ -2645,8 +2645,9 @@ sub handle_dependencies
 {
     if ($use_dependencies)
     {
-	# Include GNU-make-specific auto-dep code.
-	if ($dir_holds_sources)
+	# Include GNU-make-specific auto-dep code.  Don't include it
+	# if DEP_FILES would be empty.
+	if ($dir_holds_sources && keys %dep_files)
 	{
 	    &define_pretty_variable ('DEP_FILES', '', sort keys %dep_files);
 	    $output_rules .= &file_contents ('depend');