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Subject:	Re: include depend
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> deckerben <deckerben AT freenet DOT de> wrote:
> 
> > I have source code that include the line "include depend" in
> > the makefile, but the file "depend" does not exist, nor do any
> > obvious candidates for renaming. Is there a utility that
> > creates this file?
> 
> Probably --- but not for DJGPP, as it is.
> 
> It would probably help if you could give some more details. 
> Like the name of the package, and what compiler it's supposed to
> be used with, originally.
> 
> > Is the application source code / makefile possibly broken?
> 
> Not necessarily.  But probably it's not meant for DJGPP. 
> Makefiles, if not very carefully written, are about the most
> unportable thing you can find in a typical Unix source code.
> 
> Some people have installed GNU make on their Unix boxes, even
> they they don't have any other GNU software, simply for that
> reason: using GNU make on all platforms is about the only way
> to gain compatible access to a reasonable set of features
> across many different platforms.

Doesn't gcc have an option to generate dependancies, something
like -M? and a similar environment variable?

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