make

Features and purpose

Guide for writing idiomatic, maintainable Makefiles following modern best practices. Enforces safety headers (SHELL, .SHELLFLAGS, .DELETE_ON_ERROR), self-documenting help, .PHONY declarations, modular includes. Triggers on "makefile", "Makefile", "make target", "make rule", "make pattern", "make help", "make template", ".mk file", "make include", "make variable", "make phony", "make dependency", "build system", "make clean", "make install", "make test", "make build", "make all", "make default", "task runner", "make automation", "GNU make", "make recipe", "make prerequisite". PROACTIVE: MUST invoke when writing ANY Makefile or *.mk file.

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