Re: How to invoke startup and cleanup rules?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Peter Ring" <address@hidden> writes:

  pr> I'd like to have a startup rule invoked before any other rule, and
  pr> a cleanup rule invoked just before make exits. Something similar
  pr> to the BEGIN and END rules in awk; or something like constructors
  pr> and destructors in an OO language. What would be the most simple
  pr> and most robust way to accomplish this?

You can emulate a "begin" type rule with $(shell ...)

  _foo := $(shell ...my commands...)

There is no simple way to do an "end" type rule.  The best you can do is
use recursion, which is kind of messy.

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