I see, thank you.
Well, in my case, I want to use this for directories, not symlinks, and I want
to use it so it is easy to see what is a directory, and it is easy for make to
make a directory, without having to specify it all-the-time:
%/:
mkdir -p $@
So this is just "syntactic sugar" for me. I use syntactic sugar all the time.
In this case, I found out that I could put more sugar to make it work:
%/.:
mkdir -p $@
but unfortunately, that's too much sugar for other purposes...
>Just FYI:
if foobar is a symlink to a dir then 'ls foobar' and 'ls foobar/' will give
you different results.
That is only to point out that the two are not 100% semantically equivalent
in all contexts:
>Another example of when they're not 100% equivalent is when copying/moving
multiple files and the final target is a directory which does not exist:
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