[bug #61328] elide the distinction between "dir" and "dir/"

[David Boyce]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #61328 (project make):

> Do you mean that make assumes that any order-only prerequisite is a
directory and compares 'foo' as equal to 'foo/', as long as 'foo' is
order-only?

That's backward. Make should not assume O-O prereqs are directories; my
argument is that it can assume paths ending in the path separator are
directories since they can't be anything else:

$ cksum /etc/passwd/
cksum: /etc/passwd/: Not a directory

> Why don't you append a slash?

This is a category error. The entire distinction between a bug report and an
RFE is that one has a workaround and the other doesn't. I filed an RFE because
I know multiple workarounds (and showed one in the body). The focus here is
not on me and my problem but on make and how to improve it.

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