Hi/2.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:40:57 +0900
>> From: KO Myung-Hun <kom...@gmail.com>
>> CC: bug-make@gnu.org
>>
>>> Please describe the use case in detail.  This situation exists on
>>> other platforms, not just of OS/2, and we don't do anything like that
>>> for those other targets, AFAIK.  Instead, the Makefile should use
>>> $(EXEEXT) or somesuch to account for the issue.  I don't see why OS/2
>>> should be handled differently.  But maybe I'm missing something.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I appended $(EXEEXT) if necessary for libiconv, coreutils, and so
>> on. BTW, I had a question while doing that. Because only OS/2 required
>> $(EXEEXT). Windows platform such as mingw also requires it, but until I
>> appended, it had not been there. In practice, make of mingw does not
>> require $(EXEEXT).
> 
> How do you mean "make of mingw does not require $(EXEEXT)"?  AFAICT,
> if the Makefile defines a target FOO, and there's a file FOO.exe that
> is up to date wrt its dependencies, the MinGW Make will recompile
> anyway, because it doesn't understand that linking FOO produces
> FOO.exe.
> 
> So I think MinGW and OS/2 are in the same wagon here.

I've tested make v3.81 for i686-pc-msys shipped with msys.

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