Re: creation of a directory

[Noel Yap]

"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> It's done so that if you write:
> 
>     foo: bar/
> 
> in one place in your makefile, and:
> 
>     bar: biz
> 
> another place, and:
> 
>     boz: $(CURDIR)/bar
> 
> in a third place, make realizes they are all the same target and won't
> try to build them multiple times (or, say "don't know how to build ..."
> for one or more of them).

IMHO, this argument isn't very strong -- why not have gmake grok directory 
hardlink syntax like '.' and '..'?  I don't think it'd be too much to ask 
people to be consistent with their '/' placements.

Anyway, the only reason I can see to keep this feature is for backwards 
compatibility.  Since there is a workaround, simplifying GNU make in this 
respect isn't worth it.

MTC,
Noel
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