Eli Zaretskii wrote:
OK, and where is the support for that implemented in GNU Make?

There is no special implementation for it. GNU Make calls stat("foo/", ...), and on POSIXish systems this returns -1 and sets errno==ENOTDIR if foo is a regular file, so GNU Make acts on the assumption that foo does not exist.

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