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

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #65759 (group make):

(original poster) Understood about --. WRT -, I don't think it should be an
error, I think it should be treated as a filename as Dmitry says.

IMHO the interesting question is: given that - should be treated as a valid
filename, should it be required to come after a --? I haven't read the POSIX
standard closely so I don't know what it might require but intuitively it
seems that - without -- could be treated as a bogus option whereas after -- it
must be a valid filename. This does not seem to be happening now:

$ cat Makefile
%:; @:$(info creating $@)

$ make -- foo
creating foo

$ make -- -
make: *** No targets.  Stop.


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