diff --git a/gcc/f/ChangeLog b/gcc/f/ChangeLog
index 4cae109d6f8..cd594375c1b 100644
--- a/gcc/f/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/f/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Aug 11 08:12:14 1998  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)
+
+	* Make-lang.in (g77.o): Touch lang-f77 before checking it.
+
 1998-08-09  Dave Love  <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
 
 	* Make-lang.in (f/g77.dvi): Replace non-working use of texi2dvi
diff --git a/gcc/f/Make-lang.in b/gcc/f/Make-lang.in
index 7dd1fcf7c83..4afec3e452d 100644
--- a/gcc/f/Make-lang.in
+++ b/gcc/f/Make-lang.in
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ g77version.o: $(srcdir)/f/version.c
 # to track changes to the toplevel gcc Makefile as well.
 # We depend on g77.c last, to make it obvious where it came from.
 g77.o: $(CONFIG_H) multilib.h config.status $(lang_specs_files) g77.c
+	case "$(LANGUAGES)" in \
+	  *[fF]77*) touch lang-f77;; \
+	  *) rm -f lang-f77;; \
+	esac
 	if [ -f lang-f77 ]; then \
 	  $(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(ALL_CPPFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) $(DRIVER_DEFINES) \
 	   -DLANG_SPECIFIC_DRIVER -c g77.c; \