This tutorial is awful. You should read the manual, which is shorter than that page! make is NOT: alias: commands this will bite you when you le

This tutorial is awful. You should read the manual, which is shorter than that page! make is NOT: alias: commands this will bite you when you least expect. Make is: targetfile: inputfiles commands to get targetfile to exist and you can use things like %.css_min: %.css sass stuff .PHONY: release # above is needed otherwise you won't build if there is a release/ dir release: release-min.css release-min.css: (list *.css_min files, there are helpers for it) cat *.css_min > release-min.css anyway. you get the idea. work with files and why you need those files.