`.deps' are sourced only by Makefiles created by fastgen.sh, so it makes

sense to create empty .deps there.

build/fastgen.sh

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 #
 ##############################################################################
-# $Id: fastgen.sh,v 1.4 2000-05-04 16:08:10 sas Exp $ 
+# $Id: fastgen.sh,v 1.5 2000-05-04 17:50:32 sas Exp $ 
 #
 
 srcdir=$1
@@ -55,5 +55,7 @@ builddir     = $top_builddir/$dir
 VPATH        = $top_srcdir/$dir
 EOF
 )| cat - $top_srcdir/$makefile.in > $makefile
+  
+  test -z "$dir" || touch $dir/.deps
 
 done

build/rules.mk

@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ distclean-recursive depend-recursive clean-recursive all-recursive install-recur
 			ok=yes; \
 			target="$$target-p"; \
 		fi; \
-		if test ! -f $$i/.deps; then touch $$i/.deps; fi; \
 		(cd $$i && $(MAKE) $$target) || exit 1; \
 	done; \
 	if test "$$otarget" = "all" && test -z '$(targets)'; then ok=yes; fi; \

build/rules_pear.mk

@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ distclean-recursive depend-recursive clean-recursive all-recursive install-recur
 			ok=yes; \
 			target="$$target-p"; \
 		fi; \
-		if test ! -f $$i/.deps; then touch $$i/.deps; fi; \
 		(cd $$i && $(MAKE) $$target) || exit 1; \
 	done; \
 	if test "$$otarget" = "all" && test -z '$(targets)'; then ok=yes; fi; \