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, for use by make(1). 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` 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.

July 31, 2011 | Debian