MKCOMDEPEND(1)

💅 MKCOMDEPEND — mkcomdepend(1) 💅

okay so bestie, sit down, grab your strawberry matcha 🍓 because we're talking about mkcomdepend — the little manual page (section 1, one of the big ones, iykyk) that literally exists to make your Makefile not a whole mess. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

mkcomdepend — generate Makefile dependencies from scripts. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mkcomdepend build.sh

one script, in and out, main character energy only. 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the way this works is: mkcomdepend extracts dependencies from scripts. lowkey its whole personality is reading your script and telling the Makefile what's up. 💅

it takes all variables that start with INPUT, OUTPUT, and OUTDIR — yes, all of them, it's greedy like that and honestly we love her for it 🙈 — but here's the catch: they have to be enclosed in this little sandwich right here:

#BEGIN DEPEND

...

#END DEPEND

so like, the variables have to live between #BEGIN DEPEND and #END DEPEND. that's the vibe check. if they're not in there, she's not looking at them, periodt. 💀

also, mkcomdepend attempts to evaluate expressions enclosed in $(...). attempts!! she tries her best fr fr, that's literally the documented behaviour, don't come for her. 😭

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🎀 RESOURCES 🎀

Homepage and issue tracker, aka where you go when you need to be nosy or file a bug 🐛✨:

https://projects.ibt.lt/repositories/projects/mkdepend

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🌈 LICENSE 🌈

mkcomdepend is released under the BSD-3-Clause license. iconic, legal, and free. slay. 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🧚 this was MKCOMDEPEND(1), dated 04/27/2021 — yes that's the footer, we folded it in, you're welcome 💜 go make some dependencies, you got this 💅✨🌸