1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Makeconf b/Makeconf
index b7d4202e..12c10f9e 100644
--- a/Makeconf
+++ b/Makeconf
@@ -309,9 +309,19 @@ endif
 ifneq ($(dir),.)
 DEP_SRCS = sed -e 's/^.*://' -e 's/ \\$$//' | tr ' ' '\012'| \
 	   sed -n -e 's@^$(srcdir)@&@p' -e 's@^[^/]@&@p' | sort -ur
+ifeq ($(OBJS),)
+TAGS: $(OTHERTAGS)
+ifeq ($(OTHERTAGS),)
+# no tags, but parent will include this file, so make empty one.
+	> $@
+else
+	etags -o $@ $^
+endif
+else
 TAGS: $(OBJS:.o=.d) $(OTHERTAGS)
 	cat $(OBJS:.o=.d) | $(DEP_SRCS) | etags -o $@ - $(OTHERTAGS)
 endif
+endif
 
 # Cleaning
 ifeq ($(clean),yes)