MKDEP(1) AerieBSD 1.0 Refernce Manual MKDEP(1)

NAME

mkdep — construct Makefile dependency list

SYNOPSIS

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

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 may be run from a single Makefile.
-f file
Write the include file dependencies to file, instead of the default .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 useful for programs whose source is contained in a single module.

FILES

.depend
file containing list of dependencies

SEE ALSO

cc(1), cpp(1), make(1)

HISTORY

The mkdep command appeared in 4.3BSD-Tahoe.

AerieBSD 1.0 Reference Manual August 26 2008 MKDEP(1)