How to Google for --depend?

Question

The latest makefiles we've received from a third party vendor contain rules with --depend on the end of build rules, so I thought I would look it up on Google, but try as I might, I can't persuade it to display any pages with exactly the characters --depend

I've tried surrounding it with quotes "--depend": I've tried the Advanced Search: I've tried backslashes "\-\-depend" in the (vain) hope that there is some sort of unpublished regular expression search available.

Am I missing something blindingly obvious?

Please note that this is NOT a question about what --depend does, I know that, it's a question about how you Google for very precise, programmer oriented, text.

Answer 1

You can specifiy literal symbols in a Google Code Search but not Google Web Search.

Examples;

Google Code Search for +"--depend"

Google Web Search for +"--depend"