[gnclmorais]

I’ve written about Makefiles for the web before, you can’t say they can’t be readable: http://blog.gnclmorais.com/makefiles-are-for-the-web

[jorams]

Something about the Makefile in your post is a bit weird though: You only declare "test" as a PHONY target, but every other target in the file is just as PHONY. And since you don't even explain that line, it could be a bit confusing.