> Cc: psm...@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:39:47 -0700
>
> 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.
I meant where this behavior is implicitly assumed by Make.
But I think I found it: remake.c:name_mtime. So I fixed the call to
'stat' there to emulate the Posix behavior on MS-Windows.
Thanks.
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