wyse03br@yahoo.com.br writes:

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> toby wrote: 

This will execute do_on_failure on *any* failure;
the OP wanted to execute cleanup only on interruption.

It may or may not make sense to cleanup on other failures (perhaps
further investigation of why make failed in non-interrupted case
requires intermediate results).
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> Unfortunately I can't add the wrapper, the Makefile is called from a
> monolithic application.

You sure can:

all:
bash -c "trap 'clean-up' INT TERM ; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) target_with_cleanup"

target_with_cleanup: dependencies
whatever ...

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