Re: why does make strip / at the end of a directory prerequisite??

[Lane Schwartz]

On Unix-like systems which use / as the file path separator, the two
items you describe ("dir" and "dir/") are treated as exactly the same
item.

I may be wrong on this, but I believe that "/" is not allowed as part
of a file name on Linux.

If you remove the trailing "/" from the mkdir rule, it should work.

Lane


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Mark Galeck (CW) <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This ought to work  - it works on Windows GNU Make, but not on Linux:
>
>
> %/:
>        mkdir -p $@
>
> dir/foobar: dir/
>        touch $@
>
>
>
>
> GNU Make on Linux thinks that dir is the prerequisite, not dir/, and bombs.
>
>
> Is this a bug??
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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