MKDEP(1) MachTen Reference Manual MKDEP(1)

NAME
mkdep - construct Makefile dependency list

SYNOPSIS
mkdep [-ap] [-f file] [flags] file ...

DESCRIPTION
Mkdep takes a set of flags for the C compiler and a list of C source
files as arguments and constructs a set of include file dependencies
which are written into the file ‘‘.depend’’. An example of its use in a
Makefile might be:

CFLAGS= -O -I../include
SRCS= file1.c file2.c

depend:
mkdep ${CFLAGS} ${SRCS}

where the macro SRCS is the list of C source files and the macro CFLAGS
is the list of flags for the C compiler.

The options are as follows:

-a Append to the output file, so that multiple mkdep’s may be run
from a single Makefile.

-f Write the include file dependencies to file, instead of the de-
fault ‘‘.depend’’.

-p Cause mkdep to produce dependencies of the form:

program: program.c

so that subsequent makes will produce program directly from its C
module rather than using an intermediate .o module. This is use-
ful for programs whose source is contained in a single module.

SEE ALSO
cc(1), cpp(1), make(1)

FILES
.depend File containing list of dependencies.

HISTORY
The mkdep command appeared in 4.3BSD-Tahoe.

4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 6, 1993 1