# $NetBSD: varmod-ifelse.mk,v 1.18 2022/01/15 20:16:55 rillig Exp $ # # Tests for the ${cond:?then:else} variable modifier, which evaluates either # the then-expression or the else-expression, depending on the condition. # # The modifier was added on 1998-04-01. # # Until 2015-10-11, the modifier always evaluated both the "then" and the # "else" expressions. # TODO: Implementation # The variable name of the expression is expanded and then taken as the # condition. In the below example it becomes: # # variable expression == "literal" # # This confuses the parser, which expects an operator instead of the bare # word "expression". If the name were expanded lazily, everything would be # fine since the condition would be: # # ${:Uvariable expression} == "literal" # # Evaluating the variable name lazily would require additional code in # Var_Parse and ParseVarname, it would be more useful and predictable # though. .if ${${:Uvariable expression} == "literal":?bad:bad} . error .else . error .endif # In a variable assignment, undefined variables are not an error. # Because of the early expansion, the whole condition evaluates to # ' == ""' though, which cannot be parsed because the left-hand side looks # empty. COND:= ${${UNDEF} == "":?bad-assign:bad-assign} # In a condition, undefined variables generate a "Malformed conditional" # error. That error message is wrong though. In lint mode, the correct # "Undefined variable" error message is generated. # The difference to the ':=' variable assignment is the additional # "Malformed conditional" error message. .if ${${UNDEF} == "":?bad-cond:bad-cond} . error .else . error .endif # When the :? is parsed, it is greedy. The else branch spans all the # text, up until the closing character '}', even if the text looks like # another modifier. .if ${1:?then:else:Q} != "then" . error .endif .if ${0:?then:else:Q} != "else:Q" . error .endif # This line generates 2 error messages. The first comes from evaluating the # malformed conditional "1 == == 2", which is reported as "Bad conditional # expression" by ApplyModifier_IfElse. The variable expression containing that # conditional therefore returns a parse error from Var_Parse, and this parse # error propagates to CondEvalExpression, where the "Malformed conditional" # comes from. .if ${1 == == 2:?yes:no} != "" . error .else . error .endif # If the "Bad conditional expression" appears in a quoted string literal, the # error message "Malformed conditional" is not printed, leaving only the "Bad # conditional expression". # # XXX: The left-hand side is enclosed in quotes. This results in Var_Parse # being called without VARE_UNDEFERR. When ApplyModifier_IfElse # returns AMR_CLEANUP as result, Var_Parse returns varUndefined since the # value of the variable expression is still undefined. CondParser_String is # then supposed to do proper error handling, but since varUndefined is local # to var.c, it cannot distinguish this return value from an ordinary empty # string. The left-hand side of the comparison is therefore just an empty # string, which is obviously equal to the empty string on the right-hand side. # # XXX: The debug log for -dc shows a comparison between 1.0 and 0.0. The # condition should be detected as being malformed before any comparison is # done since there is no well-formed comparison in the condition at all. .MAKEFLAGS: -dc .if "${1 == == 2:?yes:no}" != "" . error .else . warning Oops, the parse error should have been propagated. .endif .MAKEFLAGS: -d0 # As of 2020-12-10, the variable "name" is first expanded, and the result of # this expansion is then taken as the condition. To force the variable # expression in the condition to be evaluated at exactly the right point, # the '$' of the intended '${VAR}' escapes from the parser in form of the # expression ${:U\$}. Because of this escaping, the variable "name" and thus # the condition ends up as "${VAR} == value", just as intended. # # This hack does not work for variables from .for loops since these are # expanded at parse time to their corresponding ${:Uvalue} expressions. # Making the '$' of the '${VAR}' expression indirect hides this expression # from the parser of the .for loop body. See ForLoop_SubstVarLong. .MAKEFLAGS: -dc VAR= value .if ${ ${:U\$}{VAR} == value :?ok:bad} != "ok" . error .endif .MAKEFLAGS: -d0 # On 2021-04-19, when building external/bsd/tmux with HAVE_LLVM=yes and # HAVE_GCC=no, the following conditional generated this error message: # # make: Bad conditional expression 'string == "literal" && no >= 10' # in 'string == "literal" && no >= 10?yes:no' # # Despite the error message (which was not clearly marked with "error:"), # the build continued, for historical reasons, see main_Exit. # # The tricky detail here is that the condition that looks so obvious in the # form written in the makefile becomes tricky when it is actually evaluated. # This is because the condition is written in the place of the variable name # of the expression, and in an expression, the variable name is always # expanded first, before even looking at the modifiers. This happens for the # modifier ':?' as well, so when CondEvalExpression gets to see the # expression, it already looks like this: # # string == "literal" && no >= 10 # # When parsing such an expression, the parser used to be strict. It first # evaluated the left-hand side of the operator '&&' and then started parsing # the right-hand side 'no >= 10'. The word 'no' is obviously a string # literal, not enclosed in quotes, which is ok, even on the left-hand side of # the comparison operator, but only because this is a condition in the # modifier ':?'. In an ordinary directive '.if', this would be a parse error. # For strings, only the comparison operators '==' and '!=' are defined, # therefore parsing stopped at the '>', producing the 'Bad conditional # expression'. # # Ideally, the conditional expression would not be expanded before parsing # it. This would allow to write the conditions exactly as seen below. That # change has a high chance of breaking _some_ existing code and would need # to be thoroughly tested. # # Since cond.c 1.262 from 2021-04-20, make reports a more specific error # message in situations like these, pointing directly to the specific problem # instead of just saying that the whole condition is bad. STRING= string NUMBER= no # not really a number .info ${${STRING} == "literal" && ${NUMBER} >= 10:?yes:no}. .info ${${STRING} == "literal" || ${NUMBER} >= 10:?yes:no}. # The following situation occasionally occurs with MKINET6 or similar # variables. NUMBER= # empty, not really a number either .info ${${STRING} == "literal" && ${NUMBER} >= 10:?yes:no}. .info ${${STRING} == "literal" || ${NUMBER} >= 10:?yes:no}. # CondParser_LeafToken handles [0-9-+] specially, treating them as a number. PLUS= + ASTERISK= * EMPTY= # empty # "true" since "+" is not the empty string. .info ${${PLUS} :?true:false} # "false" since the variable named "*" is not defined. .info ${${ASTERISK} :?true:false} # syntax error since the condition is completely blank. .info ${${EMPTY} :?true:false}