Yep. Though with newer versions of gcc (I don't know how new though) you can avoid the nasty sed stuff. I'm currently using this to generate my .d files for C f

Yep. Though with newer versions of gcc (I don't know how new though) you can avoid the nasty sed stuff. I'm currently using this to generate my .d files for C files: $(objtree)/%.d: $(srctree)/%.c @$(CC) -MM -MP -MF $@ $(CPPFLAGS) $< -MT $(objtree)/$*.o -MT $@ That generates a dependency file in the form: $(objtree)/%.o $(objtree)/%.d: (dependency list) (dependency-list-entry-1): (dependency-list-entry-2): etc... It's pretty handy. Avoiding all the sed stuff is nice.