docker-compose up --no-build should not require the existence of the build context directories

[zeehio]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In a production system, I would like to use docker-compose up --no-build but I can't when the build context directory does not exist, even though it is not used:

ERROR: build path my/build/context either does not exist, is not accessible, or is not a valid URL.

Describe the solution you'd like
docker-compose up --no-build should not require the existence of build context directories.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I can run mkdir -p my/build/context before docker-compose up --no-build, but it's kind of annoying to have to do that.

Additional context

Discussion at: https://stackoverflow.com/q/53389151/446149

[woo2]

Looks like this was fixed in 1.27.0!

[emranbm]

That's nice. Thanks.
But it still errors on docker-compose down:

ERROR: build path /some/where either does not exist, is not accessible, or is not a valid URL.

However, why does it need to have build context when downing at all?!

[emranbm]

This issue seems to be a subset of #4047.

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