This is achieved by adding public/css/gogs.css to special .IGNORE target, which makes inability to generate/update gogs.css non-fatal and not stopping whole build process. User is still notified about missing lessc command though, since inability to update CSS may lead to potential problems: lessc public/less/gogs.less public/css/gogs.css make: lessc: No such file or directory make: [public/css/gogs.css] Error 1 (ignored) More info at: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Special-Targets.htmlfor-closed-social