Automatic prerequisites

[Alexey Neyman]

Hi,

the make.info suggests the following way of generating automatic 
dependencies:

     %.d: %.c
              $(CC) -M $(CPPFLAGS) $< > address@hidden; \
              sed 's,\($*\)\.o[ :]*,\1.o $@ : ,g' < address@hidden > $@; \
              rm -f address@hidden

However, fairly recent GCC has the -MT option that allows to specify 
the targets to be put in the .d file. That is, one could just invoke 

  $ gcc -M -MT 'foo.o foo.d' foo.c

and get the dependencies in the form:

  foo.o foo.d: bar.h baz.h /usr/include/stdio.h

This avoids spawning 2 additional processes and making a temporary 
file. This option is available even in GCC 3.2; I haven't checked the 
releases before it. Why doesn't make suggest using it?

Regards,
Alexey.

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