4.1.2 Tasks with Special Meaning

Rscons recognizes special meaning for a few tasks:

• configure
• default
• clean
• distclean
• install
• uninstall

For each of these tasks, a shortcut method of the same name as the task is provided which is equivalent to calling the task() method with the first argument (task name) automatically filled in by the shortcut method. For example:

default deps: "unpack_compiler" do
  puts "default task"
end

is equivalent to:

task "default", deps: "unpack_compiler" do
  puts "default task"
end