Re: make: dependfile preference list

["Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%crufty.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:53:07 +0000, David Holland writes:
>When I used to do that as standard practice (check in the depend
>files) I called it "depend.mk".

Funny you should mention that - I just added a depend.mk to my mk-files
collection for this purpose - so I can experiment with the idea.
.MAKE.DEPENDFILE = depend.mk
and make will read .../mk/depend.mk which will then look for whatever 
.MAKE.DEPENDFILE_PREFERENCE indicates.