diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9bd6f9b3..37719698 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ $(OUT)%.o.ctr: $(OUT)%.o
 
 $(OUT)compile_time_request.o: $(patsubst %.c, $(OUT)src/%.o.ctr,$(src-y)) ./scripts/buildcommands.py
 	@echo "  Building $@"
-	$(Q)cat $(patsubst %.c, $(OUT)src/%.o.ctr,$(src-y)) > $(OUT)klipper.compile_time_request
-	$(Q)$(PYTHON) ./scripts/buildcommands.py -d $(OUT)klipper.dict -t "$(CC);$(AS);$(LD);$(OBJCOPY);$(OBJDUMP);$(STRIP)" $(OUT)klipper.compile_time_request $(OUT)compile_time_request.c
+	$(Q)cat $(patsubst %.c, $(OUT)src/%.o.ctr,$(src-y)) | tr '\0' '\n' > $(OUT)compile_time_request.txt
+	$(Q)$(PYTHON) ./scripts/buildcommands.py -d $(OUT)klipper.dict -t "$(CC);$(AS);$(LD);$(OBJCOPY);$(OBJDUMP);$(STRIP)" $(OUT)compile_time_request.txt $(OUT)compile_time_request.c
 	$(Q)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $(OUT)compile_time_request.c -o $@
 
 $(OUT)klipper.elf: $(OBJS_klipper.elf)
diff --git a/scripts/buildcommands.py b/scripts/buildcommands.py
index 6ef5c80a..b74581de 100644
--- a/scripts/buildcommands.py
+++ b/scripts/buildcommands.py
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ def main():
     f = open(incmdfile, 'rb')
     data = f.read()
     f.close()
-    for req in data.split('\0'):
+    for req in data.split('\n'):
         req = req.lstrip()
         if not req:
             continue
diff --git a/src/ctr.h b/src/ctr.h
index 959cef45..b3c14ff1 100644
--- a/src/ctr.h
+++ b/src/ctr.h
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 #define __CTR_H
 // Definitions for creating compile time requests.  The DECL_CTR macro
 // produces requests (text strings) that are placed in a special
-// section of the intermediate object files.  The requests are then
-// extracted during the build and passed to scripts/buildcommand.py.
+// section of the intermediate object files (*.o).  The build extracts
+// these strings and places them in out/compile_time_requests.txt.
 // The scripts/buildcommand.py code then generates
 // out/compile_time_request.c from these requests.