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 <psm...@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. > > >
