How to include header files in makefiles

[Jonathon McKitrick]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 04:38:15PM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote:
: 1) relative addressing means you have to be forever translating paths in 
: listings, and very often the number of include paths gets to be rather long.

Okay, I can fix that easily.

: The Make(1) man page doesn't show "include", the advertised command is 
: ".include".  If you use .include, then you can modify your make, if you 

Also fixable.

: >How can I include the .h files so the .c files are recompiled when the
: >header files they require are changed?  GNU make has 'make depend' but I'd
: >like a better, BSDmake-centric way, if possible.
: 
: Well, did you look at the files in /usr/share/mk, and specifically 
: bsd.dep.mk?  You can even use the FreeBSD sources to figure out (to use 
: as examples) how things should work.

This is the key I want to get working.  I'll take a look at those files, but
they are pretty deep.

: I honestly keep on switching back and forth, between thinking that the 
: best make is bmake, or gmake.  They both have key items that make them 
: uniquely better.

I haven't decided yet.  Most BSD people are (predictably) anti-gmake.  I
have to use gmake for a Linux project I'm on.

Jonathon McKitrick
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