The article says most people don’t mark recipes as .PHONY and seems to use that as a reason to not bother in the tutorial. I think that is a weak excuse and we should teach the right way to use a tool.

My teammates gave me a hard time for adding and maintaining .PHONY on all our recipes since we use make as a task runner.

Clark Grubb has a great page explaining a style guide for make files:

https://clarkgrubb.com/makefile-style-guide

Does anyone else use this style guide? Or for phony recipes marking phony at the recipe declaration vs a giant list at the top of the file?

I would love to have a linter that enforced this…