the usage line on mkdep omits the '-a' option.
I got an odd error when using the system makefiles, and doing a make depend;

...output follows...
files=" cache.C main.C ";  if [ "$files" != "  " ]; then  mkdep -a  -+  $files;
 fi
gcc: unrecognized option `-+'
...end output...

Last time it said unrecognized option '-a'.  No biggie, I ran mkdep myself.
PS: there are .C and .h files in the dir.
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