make/unit-tests/cond-func-empty.mk

# $NetBSD: cond-func-empty.mk,v 1.20 2023/06/01 20:56:35 rillig Exp $
#
# Tests for the empty() function in .if conditions, which tests a variable
# expression for emptiness.
#
# Note that the argument in the parentheses is a variable name, not a variable
# expression, optionally followed by variable modifiers.
#

.undef UNDEF
EMPTY=	# empty
SPACE=	${:U }
WORD=	word

# An undefined variable is empty.
.if !empty(UNDEF)
.  error
.endif

# An undefined variable has the empty string as the value, and the :M
# variable modifier does not change that.
#
.if !empty(UNDEF:M*)
.  error
.endif

# The :S modifier replaces the empty value with an actual word.  After
# applying the :S modifier to the expression, its value is 'empty', so it is
# no longer empty, but it is still based on an undefined variable.  There are
# a few modifiers that turn an undefined expression into a defined expression,
# among them :U and :D, but not :S.  Therefore, at the end of evaluating the
# expression, the expression is still undefined, so its final value becomes an
# empty string.
#
# XXX: This is hard to explain to someone who doesn't know these
# implementation details.
#
.if !empty(UNDEF:S,^$,value,W)
.  error
.endif

# The :U modifier changes the state of a previously undefined expression from
# DEF_UNDEF to DEF_DEFINED.  This marks the expression as "being interesting
# enough to be further processed".
#
.if empty(UNDEF:S,^$,value,W:Ufallback)
.  error
.endif

# When an expression is based on an undefined variable, its modifiers interact
# in sometimes surprising ways.  Applying the :S modifier to the undefined
# expression makes its value non-empty, but doesn't change that the expression
# is based on an undefined variable.  The :U modifier that follows only looks
# at the definedness state to decide whether the variable is defined or not.
# This kind of makes sense since the :U modifier tests the _variable_, not the
# _expression_.
#
# Since the variable was undefined to begin with, the fallback value from the
# :U modifier is used in this expression, instead of keeping the 'value' from
# the :S modifier.
#
.if ${UNDEF:S,^$,value,W:Ufallback} != "fallback"
.  error
.endif

# The variable EMPTY is completely empty (0 characters).
.if !empty(EMPTY)
.  error
.endif

# The variable SPACE has a single space, which counts as being empty.
.if !empty(SPACE)
.  error
.endif

# The variable .newline has a single newline, which counts as being empty.
.if !empty(.newline)
.  error
.endif

# The following example constructs an expression with the variable name ""
# and the value " ".  This expression counts as empty since the value contains
# only whitespace.
#
# Contrary to the other functions in conditionals, the trailing space is not
# stripped off, as can be seen in the -dv debug log.  If the space had been
# stripped, it wouldn't make a difference in this case, but in other cases.
#
.if !empty(:U )
.  error
.endif

# Now the variable named " " gets a non-empty value, which demonstrates that
# neither leading nor trailing spaces are trimmed in the argument of the
# function.  If the spaces were trimmed, the variable name would be "" and
# that variable is indeed undefined.  Since CondParser_FuncCallEmpty calls
# Var_Parse without VARE_UNDEFERR, the value of the undefined variable ""
# would be returned as an empty string.
${:U }=	space
.if empty( )
.  error
.endif

# The value of the following expression is " word", which is not empty.
.if empty(:U word)
.  error
.endif

# The :L modifier creates a variable expression that has the same value as
# its name, which both are "VAR" in this case.  The value is therefore not
# empty.
.if empty(VAR:L)
.  error
.endif

# The variable WORD has the value "word", which does not count as empty.
.if empty(WORD)
.  error
.endif

# The expression ${} for a variable with the empty name always evaluates
# to an empty string (see Var_Parse, varUndefined).
.if !empty()
.  error
.endif

# Ensure that variable expressions that appear as part of the function call
# argument are properly parsed.  Typical use cases for this are .for loops,
# which are expanded to exactly these ${:U} expressions.
#
# If everything goes well, the argument expands to "WORD", and that variable
# is defined at the beginning of this file.  The surrounding 'W' and 'D'
# ensure that CondParser_FuncCallEmpty keeps track of the parsing position,
# both before and after the call to Var_Parse.
.if empty(W${:UOR}D)
.  error
.endif

# There may be spaces at the outside of the parentheses.
# Spaces inside the parentheses are interpreted as part of the variable name.
.if ! empty ( WORD )
.  error
.endif

${:U WORD }=	variable name with spaces

# Now there is a variable named " WORD ", and it is not empty.
.if empty ( WORD )
.  error
.endif

# expect+2: Unclosed variable "WORD"
# expect+1: Malformed conditional (empty(WORD)
.if empty(WORD
.  error
.else
.  error
.endif

# Since cond.c 1.76 from 2020-06-28 and before var.c 1.226 from 2020-07-02,
# the following example generated a wrong error message "Variable VARNAME is
# recursive".
#
# Since at least 1993, the manual page claimed that irrelevant parts of
# conditions were not evaluated, but that was wrong for a long time.  The
# expressions in irrelevant parts of the condition were actually evaluated,
# they just allowed undefined variables to be used in the conditions.  These
# unnecessary evaluations were fixed in several commits, starting with var.c
# 1.226 from 2020-07-02.
#
# In this example, the variable "VARNAME2" is not defined, so evaluation of
# the condition should have stopped at this point, and the rest of the
# condition should have been processed in parse-only mode.  The right-hand
# side containing the '!empty' was evaluated though, as it had always been.
#
# When evaluating the !empty condition, the variable name was parsed as
# "VARNAME${:U2}", but without expanding any nested variable expression, in
# this case the ${:U2}.  The expression '${:U2}' was replaced with an empty
# string, the resulting variable name was thus "VARNAME".  This conceptually
# wrong variable name should have been discarded quickly after parsing it, to
# prevent it from doing any harm.
#
# The variable expression was expanded though, and this was wrong.  The
# expansion was done without VARE_WANTRES (called VARF_WANTRES back
# then) though.  This had the effect that the ${:U1} from the value of VARNAME
# expanded to an empty string.  This in turn created the seemingly recursive
# definition VARNAME=${VARNAME}, and that definition was never meant to be
# expanded.
#
# This was fixed by expanding nested variable expressions in the variable name
# only if the flag VARE_WANTRES is given.
VARNAME=	${VARNAME${:U1}}
.if defined(VARNAME${:U2}) && !empty(VARNAME${:U2})
.endif


# If the word 'empty' is not followed by '(', it is not a function call but an
# ordinary bare word.  This bare word is interpreted as 'defined(empty)', and
# since there is no variable named 'empty', the condition evaluates to false.
.if empty
.  error
.endif

empty=		# defined but empty
.if empty
.else
.  error
.endif