diff --git a/Configurations/common.tmpl b/Configurations/common.tmpl
index 9d7fbf2e77bc7029c71e56883f638373296c1758..d811a2a144651f8c1ef190a171f535f1594ce9f2 100644
--- a/Configurations/common.tmpl
+++ b/Configurations/common.tmpl
@@ -34,6 +34,18 @@
      @newlist;
  }
 
+ # is_installed checks if a given file will be installed (i.e. they are
+ # not defined _NO_INST in build.info)
+ sub is_installed {
+     my $product = shift;
+     if (grep { $product eq $_ }
+         map { (@{$unified_info{install}->{$_}}) }
+         keys %{$unified_info{install}}) {
+         return 1;
+     }
+     return 0;
+ }
+
  # dogenerate is responsible for producing all the recipes that build
  # generated source files.  It recurses in case a dependency is also a
  # generated source file.
@@ -72,6 +84,7 @@
      my %opts = @_;
      if (@{$unified_info{sources}->{$obj}}) {
          $OUT .= src2obj(obj => $obj_no_o,
+                         product => $bin,
                          srcs => $unified_info{sources}->{$obj},
                          deps => $unified_info{depends}->{$obj},
                          incs => [ @{$unified_info{includes}->{$bin}},
@@ -102,9 +115,10 @@
                                         (@{$unified_info{sources}->{$lib}},
                                          @{$unified_info{shared_sources}->{$lib}}) ],
                               deps => [ reducedepends(resolvedepends($lib)) ],
+                              installed => is_installed($lib),
                               %ordinals);
          foreach (@{$unified_info{shared_sources}->{$lib}}) {
-             doobj($_, $lib, intent => "lib");
+             doobj($_, $lib, intent => "lib", installed => is_installed($lib));
          }
      }
      $OUT .= obj2lib(lib => $lib,
@@ -126,10 +140,11 @@
                      objs => [ map { (my $x = $_) =~ s|\.o$||; $x }
                                (@{$unified_info{sources}->{$lib}},
                                 @{$unified_info{shared_sources}->{$lib}}) ],
-                     deps => [ resolvedepends($lib) ]);
+                     deps => [ resolvedepends($lib) ],
+                     installed => is_installed($lib));
      foreach ((@{$unified_info{sources}->{$lib}},
                @{$unified_info{shared_sources}->{$lib}})) {
-         doobj($_, $lib, intent => "dso");
+         doobj($_, $lib, intent => "dso", installed => is_installed($lib));
      }
      $cache{$lib} = 1;
  }
@@ -143,9 +158,10 @@
      $OUT .= obj2bin(bin => $bin,
                      objs => [ map { (my $x = $_) =~ s|\.o$||; $x }
                                @{$unified_info{sources}->{$bin}} ],
-                     deps => $deps);
+                     deps => $deps,
+                     installed => is_installed($bin));
      foreach (@{$unified_info{sources}->{$bin}}) {
-         doobj($_, $bin, intent => "bin");
+         doobj($_, $bin, intent => "bin", installed => is_installed($bin));
      }
      $cache{$bin} = 1;
  }
@@ -156,7 +172,8 @@
      my $script = shift;
      return "" if $cache{$script};
      $OUT .= in2script(script => $script,
-                       sources => $unified_info{sources}->{$script});
+                       sources => $unified_info{sources}->{$script},
+                       installed => is_installed($script));
      $cache{$script} = 1;
  }