Follow-up Comment #14, bug #62929 (project make):
Thanks for digging this part of the manual up.
> There are two exceptions: a target starting with a period is not a default
unless it contains one or more slashes, ‘/’, as well;
I attempt to express this precisely in a somewhat informal modal
Follow-up Comment #10, bug #62929 (project make):
I understand now. In that case, I will start learning how to properly
contribute to this project and try to come up with some proper edits to the
manual that clarifies things, or maybe we could simply tell people not to use
dot for relative
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #62929 (project make):
Might I add on the last comment, as I can't find an edit button.
I think: if the intention of not using dot-leading targets as default goal is
to *ignore hidden file targets* when looking for default goal, then the
behavior of treating target
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #62929 (project make):
Thank you Paul for walking me through the means of participation.
Following is what I should've quoted, from 2.3 How make Processes a Makefile
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #62929 (project make):
Apologies if this isn't the place but I thought I ran into a relevant problem
as it also pertains to how Make deals with '.' in targets.
For Makefile:
.a:
$(info 0)
./b:
$(info 1)
c:
$(info 2)
Running either Make 3.81
