> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:57:43 -0700 > > On 09/29/2017 01:06 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Are there other situations where Make uses "foo/" and expects > > that to mean that 'foo' is a directory? > > It's pretty much any situation where Make looks for file names that the > user specifies. As a trivial example, the Makefile rule: > > foo/:; mkdir -p $@ > > should fail if "foo" exists as a regular file, since Make will invoke > mkdir and mkdir will fail. If Make strips the trailing / before testing > the existence of "foo", Make will incorrectly skip the mkdir and so will > not guarantee that foo/ is a directory.
OK, and where is the support for that implemented in GNU Make? I'd like to have a look at the code. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
