GNU Make best practice

Makefile

-default: all
-all: cachestats cachedel nocache.so
-.PHONY: test
+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# -*- makefile -*-
 
-GCC = gcc $(CFLAGS)
-%.c: Makefile
-cachestats: cachestats.c
-	$(GCC) -Wall -o cachestats cachestats.c
-cachedel: cachedel.c
-	$(GCC) -Wall -o cachedel cachedel.c
-nocache.o: nocache.c
-	$(GCC) -Wall -fPIC -c -o nocache.o nocache.c
-fcntl_helpers.o: fcntl_helpers.c
-	$(GCC) -Wall -fPIC -c -o fcntl_helpers.o fcntl_helpers.c
-nocache.so: nocache.o fcntl_helpers.o
-	$(GCC) -Wall -pthread -shared -Wl,-soname,nocache.so -o nocache.so nocache.o fcntl_helpers.o -ldl
-
-install: all
-	install -m 0644 nocache.so /usr/local/lib
-	install -m 0755 nocache.global /usr/local/bin/nocache
-
-test:
-	cd t; prove -v .
+PREFIX ?= /usr/local
+MANDIR ?= /share/man/man1
+BINDIR ?= /bin
+LIBDIR ?= /lib
+mandir  = $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)$(MANDIR)
+bindir  = $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)$(BINDIR)
+libdir  = $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)$(LIBDIR)
+
+CACHE_BINS=cachedel cachestats
+NOCACHE_BINS=nocache.o fcntl_helpers.o
+MANPAGES=$(wildcard man/*.1)
+
+CFLAGS+= -Wall
+GCC = gcc $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
+
+.PHONY: all
+all: $(CACHE_BINS) nocache.so nocache
+
+$(CACHE_BINS):
+	$(GCC) -o $@ $@.c
+
+$(NOCACHE_BINS):
+	$(GCC) -fPIC -c -o $@ $(@:.o=.c)
+
+nocache.global:
+	sed 's!##libdir##!$(subst $(DESTDIR),,$(libdir))!' <nocache.in >$@
 
-clean:
-	rm -f cachestats cachedel fcntl_helpers.o nocache.o nocache.so
+nocache:
+	sed 's!##libdir##!$$(dirname "$$0")!' <nocache.in >$@
+	chmod a+x $@
+
+nocache.so: $(NOCACHE_BINS)
+	$(GCC) -pthread -shared -Wl,-soname,nocache.so -o nocache.so $(NOCACHE_BINS) -ldl
+
+$(mandir) $(libdir) $(bindir):
+	mkdir -v -p $@
+
+install: all $(mandir) $(libdir) $(bindir) nocache.global
+	install -m 0644 nocache.so $(libdir)
+	install -m 0755 nocache.global $(bindir)/nocache
+	install -m 0755 $(CACHE_BINS) $(bindir)
+	install -m 0644 $(MANPAGES) $(mandir)
+
+.PHONY: uninstall
+uninstall:
+	cd $(mandir) && $(RM) -v $(notdir $(MANPAGES))
+	$(RM) -v $(bindir)/nocache $(libdir)/nocache.so
+
+.PHONY: clean distclean
+clean distclean:
+	$(RM) -v $(CACHE_BINS) $(NOCACHE_BINS) nocache.so nocache nocache.global
+
+.PHONY: test
+test: all
+	cd t; prove -v .

nocache.global

-#!/bin/sh 
-BASEDIR="/usr/local"
-libnocache="$BASEDIR/lib/nocache.so"
-
-export LD_PRELOAD="$libnocache $LD_PRELOAD"
-
-if [ "$1" = "-n" ]; then
-    export NOCACHE_NR_FADVISE="$2"
-    shift 2
-fi
-
-exec "$@"

nocache → nocache.in

 #!/bin/sh
-NOCACHE_PATH=$(dirname "$0")
-libnocache="$NOCACHE_PATH/nocache.so"
 
-export LD_PRELOAD="$libnocache $LD_PRELOAD"
+export LD_PRELOAD="##libdir##/nocache.so $LD_PRELOAD"
 
 if [ "$1" = "-n" ]; then
     export NOCACHE_NR_FADVISE="$2"