add_custom_command(DEPFILE) independent from CMAKE_DEPENDS_USE_COMPILER

Fixes: #22486

Source/cmMakefileTargetGenerator.cxx

@@ -324,9 +324,25 @@ void cmMakefileTargetGenerator::WriteCommonCodeRules()
          this->LocalGenerator->MaybeRelativeToTopBinDir(dependFileNameFull))
     << "\n";
 
+  // Scan any custom commands to check if DEPFILE option is specified
+  bool ccGenerateDeps = false;
+  std::vector<cmSourceFile const*> customCommands;
+  this->GeneratorTarget->GetCustomCommands(customCommands,
+                                           this->GetConfigName());
+  for (cmSourceFile const* sf : customCommands) {
+    if (!sf->GetCustomCommand()->GetDepfile().empty()) {
+      ccGenerateDeps = true;
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+
   std::string depsUseCompiler = "CMAKE_DEPENDS_USE_COMPILER";
-  if (!this->Makefile->IsDefinitionSet(depsUseCompiler) ||
+  bool compilerGenerateDeps =
-      this->Makefile->IsOn(depsUseCompiler)) {
+    this->GlobalGenerator->SupportsCompilerDependencies() &&
+    (!this->Makefile->IsDefinitionSet(depsUseCompiler) ||
+     this->Makefile->IsOn(depsUseCompiler));
+
+  if (compilerGenerateDeps || ccGenerateDeps) {
     std::string compilerDependFile =
       cmStrCat(this->TargetBuildDirectoryFull, "/compiler_depend.make");
     *this->BuildFileStream << "# Include any dependencies generated by the "
@@ -361,7 +377,9 @@ void cmMakefileTargetGenerator::WriteCommonCodeRules()
            "management for "
         << this->GeneratorTarget->GetName() << ".\n";
     }
+  }
 
+  if (compilerGenerateDeps) {
     // deactivate no longer needed legacy dependency files
     // Write an empty dependency file.
     cmGeneratedFileStream legacyDepFileStream(

Tests/RunCMake/BuildDepends/CustomCommandDependencies-compiler-deps-legacy.cmake

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+enable_language(C)
+
+add_custom_command(OUTPUT main.c
+  DEPFILE main.c.d
+  COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -DINFILE=${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/main.c -DOUTFILE=main.c -DDEPFILE=main.c.d
+  -P "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/GenerateDepFile.cmake"
+  WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}")
+
+add_executable(main ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/main.c)

Tests/RunCMake/BuildDepends/RunCMakeTest.cmake

@@ -170,6 +170,10 @@ endif()
 
 if (RunCMake_GENERATOR MATCHES "Makefiles")
   run_cmake(CustomCommandDependencies-BadArgs)
+  run_cmake_with_options(CustomCommandDependencies-compiler-deps-legacy -DCMAKE_DEPENDS_USE_COMPILER=FALSE)
+  set(RunCMake_TEST_NO_CLEAN 1)
+  run_cmake_command(CustomCommandDependencies-compiler-deps-legacy ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build . --config Debug)
+  unset(RunCMake_TEST_NO_CLEAN)
 endif()
 
 if(RunCMake_GENERATOR MATCHES "Make|Ninja|Visual Studio|Xcode" AND