makefile-manifesto

A number of guidelines on how to write proper makefiles in the modern world of web development

Targets should have a single responsibility

A target should contain rules related to just one target

Targets should be a file if possible (Avoid .PHONY)

Make is meant to create files and is very good at determining if they should be recreated or not, make use it!

All target pre-requisites should be ..

Variable naming

All shell commands must be suffixed with _COMMAND