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