diff --git a/Source/cmTarget.cxx b/Source/cmTarget.cxx
index 003f3d830..c8f532e57 100644
--- a/Source/cmTarget.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmTarget.cxx
@@ -4839,6 +4839,10 @@ bool isLinkDependentProperty(cmTarget *tgt, const std::string &p,
                              const char *config)
 {
   cmComputeLinkInformation *info = tgt->GetLinkInformation(config);
+  if(!info)
+    {
+    return false;
+    }
 
   const cmComputeLinkInformation::ItemVector &deps = info->GetItems();