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From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> 
> I think we should add an enviroment variable (e.g. DEPENDFILE) to
> make(1) for `.depend'. mkdep -f foo support different depend files.
> 
> --Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>

I don't know exactly what you are trying to do, but you can
put something like this in your Makefile:

.if exists(${DEPENDFILE})
.include <${DEPENDFILE}>
.endif

This alleviates the need to augment make(1).  Does this help?
If not, please give me a specific example of what you are
trying to do and I will see what I can do to help. :)

Steve