Fix sporadic rebuilds for .pc files

petere · petere · commit ba66752d2788 · 2013-04-12T22:49:25.000-04:00
The build of .pc (pkg-config) files depends on all makefiles in use, and
in dependency tracking mode, the previous coding ended up including
/dev/null as a makefile.  Apparently, on some platforms the modification
time of /dev/null changes sporadically, and so the .pc files would end
up being rebuilt every so often.  Fix that by changing the makefile code
to do without using /dev/null.
diff --git a/src/Makefile.global.in b/src/Makefile.global.in
@@ -687,9 +687,12 @@ ifeq ($(GCC), yes)
 endif # GCC
 
 # Include all the dependency files generated for the current
-# directory. List /dev/null as dummy because if the wildcard expands
-# to nothing then make would complain.
--include $(wildcard $(DEPDIR)/*.Po) /dev/null
+# directory. Note that make would complain if include was called with
+# no arguments.
+Po_files := $(wildcard $(DEPDIR)/*.Po)
+ifneq (,$(Po_files))
+include $(Po_files)
+endif
 
 # hook for clean-up
 clean distclean maintainer-clean: clean-deps
