When a header file is deleted, make will complain "No rule to make target <old header file>". This often breaks incremental build completely unnecessary.

This can be fixed by adding dummy rules for all header files like this:
<header file>:

gcc can create such rules by itself by using -MP in the generated make dependency files, but that feature is not available for any other compiler, so I opted not to use it, in favour of a solution that works on all platforms.

This patch also contain a cosmetic fix for printing incremental build information that was made somewhat less clear when the vardeps functionality was introduced.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8072106
WebRev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8072106-make-dependency-targets-generation/webrev.01

/Magnus

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