[bug #65759] handling of "-" and "--" on command line

[Paul D. Smith]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #65759 (group make):

The behavior of "make --" is as expected because according to the POSIX
standard, the argument *--* specifies that no files after it are to be
considered options even if they begin with "-".

So for example if you wanted to make a target named *-f* you can't use *make
-f* because "-f" is a valid option name.  You'd have to use *make -- -f*.

However, I do agree that *make -* (one dash) should be considered an error. 
Many programs use a single dash to mean "read from stdin" but make doesn't do
this.


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