From 24bff45d1bd87f86d442157170ea8c987236318c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman@kitware.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:12:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: make sure list is not size 0 before sort

---
 Modules/GetPrerequisites.cmake | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Modules/GetPrerequisites.cmake b/Modules/GetPrerequisites.cmake
index 13a918dae8..e7457d61b5 100644
--- a/Modules/GetPrerequisites.cmake
+++ b/Modules/GetPrerequisites.cmake
@@ -568,8 +568,10 @@ function(get_prerequisites target prerequisites_var exclude_system recurse exepa
   endif("${candidate}" MATCHES "${gp_regex}")
   endforeach(candidate)
 
-  list(SORT ${prerequisites_var})
-
+  list(LENGTH ${prerequisites_var} prerequisites_var_length)
+  if(prerequisites_var_length GREATER 0)
+    list(SORT ${prerequisites_var})
+  endif(prerequisites_var_length GREATER 0)
   if(${recurse})
     set(more_inputs ${unseen_prereqs})
     foreach(input ${more_inputs})