Re: should make elide the difference between "dir" and "dir/"?

[Nicholas Clark]

I think it's a great change. I'd love for Make to understand trailing
slashes intelligently, and I think it makes sense as a default.

Are we concerned enough about compatibility breaks that it would make sense
to enable it via special-target (a-la delete-on-error)?

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, 10:36 Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 10:11 -0700, David Boyce wrote:
> > Yes, exactly, what Paul said. Paul, this felt like a topic that might
> > have been beaten to death in the past but if not, and if it's viable,
> > should I file an enhancement request?
>
> Sure, it can't hurt.
>
> My only concern is if there is some makefile, somewhere, that is taking
> advantage of the fact that targets "dir" and "dir/" are discrete
> targets right now, that would be broken by this change.
>
> I'm not sure I see how such a thing would be useful but it might
> require a bit of thought.
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