1 files changed, 65 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/compiler/doc/src/compile.xml b/lib/compiler/doc/src/compile.xml
index c3d65b4cb5..f2af932aef 100644
--- a/lib/compiler/doc/src/compile.xml
+++ b/lib/compiler/doc/src/compile.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <erlref>
   <header>
     <copyright>
-      <year>1996</year><year>2010</year>
+      <year>1996</year><year>2011</year>
       <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
@@ -164,6 +164,70 @@
               for details.</p>
           </item>
 
+          <tag><c>makedep</c></tag>
+          <item>
+            <p>Produce a Makefile rule to track headers dependencies.
+              No object file is produced.
+            </p>
+            <p>By default, this rule is written to
+              <c><![CDATA[<File>.Pbeam]]></c>. However, if the option
+                <c>binary</c> is set, nothing is written and the rule is
+                returned in <c>Binary</c>.
+            </p>
+            <p>For instance, if one has the following module:
+            </p>
+            <code>
+-module(module).
+
+-include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").
+-include("header.hrl").
+            </code>
+            <p>Here is the Makefile rule generated by this option:
+            </p>
+            <code>
+module.beam: module.erl \
+  /usr/local/lib/erlang/lib/eunit/include/eunit.hrl \
+  header.hrl
+            </code>
+          </item>
+
+          <tag><c>{makedep_output, Output}</c></tag>
+          <item>
+            <p>Write generated rule(s) to <c>Output</c> instead of the
+              default <c><![CDATA[<File>.Pbeam]]></c>. <c>Output</c>
+              can be a filename or an <c>io_device()</c>. To write to
+              stdout, use <c>standard_io</c>. However if <c>binary</c>
+              is set, nothing is written to <c>Output</c> and the
+              result is returned to the caller with
+              <c>{ok, ModuleName, Binary}</c>.
+            </p>
+          </item>
+
+          <tag><c>{makedep_target, Target}</c></tag>
+          <item>
+            <p>Change the name of the rule emitted to <c>Target</c>.
+            </p>
+          </item>
+
+          <tag><c>makedep_quote_target</c></tag>
+          <item>
+            <p>Characters in <c>Target</c> special to make(1) are quoted.
+            </p>
+          </item>
+
+          <tag><c>makedep_add_missing</c></tag>
+          <item>
+            <p>Consider missing headers as generated files and add them to the
+              dependencies.
+            </p>
+          </item>
+
+          <tag><c>makedep_phony</c></tag>
+          <item>
+            <p>Add a phony target for each dependency.
+            </p>
+          </item>
+
           <tag><c>'P'</c></tag>
           <item>
             <p>Produces a listing of the parsed code after preprocessing