generate dependency files problem

[Bram Kuijper]

Hi all,

As a newbie, I am trying to produce a non-recursive makefile as 
suggested in Mecklenburg's "Managing projects with GNU make" (3rd 
edition), chapter 6.2.

However, I'm stuck since no dependency files (*.d) are created in my 
case. Dependency files are a way to get automatically hold of all 
necessary header files (ie., containing the output of the g++ -M 
statements).

First, I create a variable holding all the dependency files (with 
*.d-suffix), based on all the source files which are in the tree:

dependencies = $(subst .cpp,.d, $(sources))


Then, I include the dependencies as follows:

ifneq "$(MAKECMDGOALS)" "clean"
        include $(dependencies)
endif

However, the actual rule to make all the dependencies is never called. 
This is the rule:

%.d: %.cpp
        $(CPP) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) -M $< | \
        $(SED) 's,\($(notdir $*)\.o\) *:,$(dir $@)\1 $@: ,' > address@hidden
        $(MV) address@hidden $@

What can be the problem? Since a simple g++ -M on any of my source files 
will _give_ a lot of output, I can't find any clue why make won't 
produce dependency files.

The complete source of my makefile is in pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/935870

thanks in advance,

Bram Kuijper