Automatically generating makefile prerequisites (gnu-make)?

I would only suggest to extract the logic into a macro, and use the latter as prerequisite. Also I would prefer patsubst function instead of notdir basename addsuffix and $(@D) automatic variable instead of $(dir $@) .

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