Re: make removes trailing '/' when dir does not exists

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Sam Ravnborg <address@hidden> writes:

  sr> Any reply for this one?
  sr> I still do not get the rationale behind it.
  sr> A quick (very quick) grep in the make soruce did not tell me anything.

  >> Consider following Makefile:
  >> 
  >> .PHONY: $(MAKECMDGOALS)
  >> 
  >> $(MAKECMDGOALS):
  >> @echo $@

  >> When I try to specify a non-existing directory it no longer works:
  >> make bar/ => make: *** No rule to make target `bar/'.  Stop.
  >> 
  >> Digging a bit further I realised that make will drop the final '/'
  >> for non-existing directiories but I fail to see why it does so.

It's definitely not a feature.

So, I suppose you could classify it as a bug :-).  There's already a bug
reported that might be slightly related, where the trailing "/" is
stripped from targets/prerequisites when they are added to $@ or $<.

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