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

[David Boyce]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #61328 (project make):

> Why is this a concern?

I may have phrased it wrong. I just meant to bring up "a question that might
reasonably be raised" and rebut it in advance.

> Unlike other tools make doesn't really care if a prerequisite is a file or a
directory.

My understanding is that by assuming "foo/" == "foo" make would be introducing
at least a little bit of that distinction. Because while "dir" == "dir/" is
true, "file" == "file/" is false since the latter is an error at stat() time.
But maybe I'm missing something?

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