Re: creation of a directory

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden> writes:

  bk> I was wondering if there is a valid reason for the following makefile
  bk> not to work.

  bk> hello : | foo/

  bk> hello :
  bk>   @echo hello

  bk> %/ :
  bk>   mkdir $*

GNU make strips trailing slashes, so that "foo/" and "foo" are
considered the same prerequisite.

You can get your makefile to work like this:

  hello : | foo/.

  hello :
        @echo hello

  %/. :
        mkdir $*

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