Bug in depcomp (4.1)

[Per Ekman]

Hello,

There seems to be a bug in depcomp in fileutils-4.1. It generates
dependency files with two dependencies on the first line, for
instance lib/.deps/__fpending.Po :

__fpending.o : \
 /afs/pdc.kth.se/src/packages/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1/lib/__fpending.c  
../config.h  
/afs/pdc.kth.se/src/packages/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1/lib/__fpending.h  
/usr/include/stdio.h  /usr/include/standards.h  /usr/include/va_list.h  
/usr/include/sys/types.h  /usr/include/sys/inttypes.h  
/usr/include/sys/m_types.h  /usr/include/sys/limits.h  /usr/include/float.h 
/afs/pdc.kth.se/src/packages/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1/lib/__fpending.c :
...

Compilation works ok but "make check" fails on AIX (xlc 3.6.4.0). I
think it should fail under Irix (MIPSPro cc 7.3.1.1) as well but the
compiler happens to generate a line starting with # as the last line
in the dependency file so the bug is masked.

The following patch solved it for me :

diff -pu depcomp depcomp.patched 
--- depcomp     Mon Sep 10 19:18:13 2001
+++ depcomp.patched     Mon Sep 10 19:18:07 2001
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ sgi)
 ' < "$tmpdepfile" | sed 's/^.*\.o://' | tr '
 ' ' ' >> $depfile
 
+    echo "" >> $depfile
     tr ' ' '
 ' < "$tmpdepfile" | \
 ## Some versions of the HPUX 10.20 sed can't process this invocation
@@ -177,6 +178,7 @@ aix)
     tr ' ' '
 ' < "$tmpdepfile" | sed 's/^[^\.]*\.o://' | tr '
 ' ' ' >> $depfile
+    echo "" >> $depfile
 
     tr ' ' '
 ' < "$tmpdepfile" | \


I apologise if I'm totally off-base, I'm not too good at this stuff.

Sincerely
Per Ekman