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MKDEP(1) General Commands 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:
Append to the output file, so that multiple mkdep's may be run from a single Makefile.
file
Write the include file dependencies to file, instead of the default ``.depend''.
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.

SEE ALSO

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

FILES

.depend
file containing list of dependencies

HISTORY

The mkdep command appeared in 4.3BSD-Tahoe.
June 6, 1993 BSD 4.2