1 # $NetBSD: varmod-ifelse.mk,v 1.41 2025/06/29 11:27:21 rillig Exp $ 2 # 3 # Tests for the ${cond:?then:else} variable modifier, which evaluates either 4 # the then-expression or the else-expression, depending on the condition. 5 # 6 # The modifier was added on 1998-04-01. 7 # 8 # Until 2015-10-11, the modifier always evaluated both the "then" and the 9 # "else" expressions. 10 11 # TODO: Implementation 12 13 # The variable name of the expression is expanded and then taken as the 14 # condition. In the below example it becomes: 15 # 16 # bare words == "literal" 17 # 18 # This confuses the parser, which expects an operator instead of the bare 19 # word "expression". If the name were expanded lazily, everything would be 20 # fine since the condition would be: 21 # 22 # ${:Ubare words} == "literal" 23 # 24 # Evaluating the variable name lazily would require additional code in 25 # Var_Parse and ParseVarname, it would be more useful and predictable 26 # though. 27 # expect+1: Bad condition 28 .if ${${:Ubare words} == "literal":?bad:bad} 29 . error 30 .else 31 . error 32 .endif 33 34 # In a variable assignment, undefined variables are not an error. 35 # Because of the early expansion, the whole condition evaluates to 36 # ' == ""' though, which cannot be parsed because the left-hand side looks 37 # empty. 38 # expect+1: Bad condition 39 COND:= ${${UNDEF} == "":?bad-assign:bad-assign} 40 41 # In a conditional directive, undefined variables are reported as such. In a 42 # ':?' modifier, though, the "variable name" is expanded first, and in that 43 # context, an undefined expression is not an error. The "variable name" then 44 # becomes the condition, in this case ' == ""', which is malformed because the 45 # left-hand side looks empty. 46 # expect+1: Bad condition 47 .if ${${UNDEF} == "":?bad-cond:bad-cond} 48 . error 49 .else 50 . error 51 .endif 52 53 # When the :? is parsed, it is greedy. The else branch spans all the 54 # text, up until the closing character '}', even if the text looks like 55 # another modifier. 56 .if ${1:?then:else:Q} != "then" 57 . error 58 .endif 59 .if ${0:?then:else:Q} != "else:Q" 60 . error 61 .endif 62 63 # This line generates 2 error messages. The first comes from evaluating the 64 # malformed conditional "1 == == 2", which is reported as "Bad conditional 65 # expression" by ApplyModifier_IfElse. The expression containing that 66 # conditional therefore returns a parse error from Var_Parse, and this parse 67 # error propagates to CondEvalExpression, where the "Malformed conditional" 68 # comes from. 69 # expect+1: Bad condition 70 .if ${1 == == 2:?yes:no} != "" 71 . error 72 .else 73 . error 74 .endif 75 76 # If the "Bad condition" appears in a quoted string literal, the 77 # error message "Malformed conditional" is not printed, leaving only the "Bad 78 # condition". 79 # 80 # XXX: The left-hand side is enclosed in quotes. This results in Var_Parse 81 # being called without VARE_EVAL_DEFINED. When ApplyModifier_IfElse 82 # returns AMR_CLEANUP as result, Var_Parse returns varUndefined since the 83 # value of the expression is still undefined. CondParser_String is 84 # then supposed to do proper error handling, but since varUndefined is local 85 # to var.c, it cannot distinguish this return value from an ordinary empty 86 # string. The left-hand side of the comparison is therefore just an empty 87 # string, which is obviously equal to the empty string on the right-hand side. 88 # 89 # XXX: The debug log for -dc shows a comparison between 1.0 and 0.0. The 90 # condition should be detected as being malformed before any comparison is 91 # done since there is no well-formed comparison in the condition at all. 92 .MAKEFLAGS: -dc 93 # expect+1: Bad condition 94 .if "${1 == == 2:?yes:no}" != "" 95 . error 96 .else 97 . error 98 .endif 99 .MAKEFLAGS: -d0 100 101 # As of 2020-12-10, the variable "VAR" is first expanded, and the result of 102 # this expansion is then taken as the condition. To force the 103 # expression in the condition to be evaluated at exactly the right point, 104 # the '$' of the intended '${VAR}' escapes from the parser in form of the 105 # expression ${:U\$}. Because of this escaping, the variable "VAR" and thus 106 # the condition ends up as "${VAR} == value", just as intended. 107 # 108 # This hack does not work for variables from .for loops since these are 109 # expanded at parse time to their corresponding ${:Uvalue} expressions. 110 # Making the '$' of the '${VAR}' expression indirect hides this expression 111 # from the parser of the .for loop body. See ForLoop_SubstVarLong. 112 .MAKEFLAGS: -dc 113 VAR= value 114 .if ${ ${:U\$}{VAR} == value:?ok:bad} != "ok" 115 . error 116 .endif 117 .MAKEFLAGS: -d0 118 119 # On 2021-04-19, when building external/bsd/tmux with HAVE_LLVM=yes and 120 # HAVE_GCC=no, the following conditional generated this error message: 121 # 122 # make: Bad conditional expression 'string == "literal" && no >= 10' 123 # in 'string == "literal" && no >= 10?yes:no' 124 # 125 # Despite the error message (which was not clearly marked with "error:"), 126 # the build continued, for historical reasons, see main_Exit. 127 # 128 # The tricky detail here is that the condition that looks so obvious in the 129 # form written in the makefile becomes tricky when it is actually evaluated. 130 # This is because the condition is written in the place of the variable name 131 # of the expression, and in an expression, the variable name is always 132 # expanded first, before even looking at the modifiers. This happens for the 133 # modifier ':?' as well, so when CondEvalExpression gets to see the 134 # expression, it already looks like this: 135 # 136 # string == "literal" && no >= 10 137 # 138 # When parsing such an expression, the parser used to be strict. It first 139 # evaluated the left-hand side of the operator '&&' and then started parsing 140 # the right-hand side 'no >= 10'. The word 'no' is obviously a string 141 # literal, not enclosed in quotes, which is OK, even on the left-hand side of 142 # the comparison operator, but only because this is a condition in the 143 # modifier ':?'. In an ordinary directive '.if', this would be a parse error. 144 # For strings, only the comparison operators '==' and '!=' are defined, 145 # therefore parsing stopped at the '>', producing the 'Bad conditional 146 # expression'. 147 # 148 # Ideally, the conditional expression would not be expanded before parsing 149 # it. This would allow to write the conditions exactly as seen below. That 150 # change has a high chance of breaking _some_ existing code and would need 151 # to be thoroughly tested. 152 # 153 # Since cond.c 1.262 from 2021-04-20, make reports a more specific error 154 # message in situations like these, pointing directly to the specific problem 155 # instead of just saying that the whole condition is bad. 156 STRING= string 157 NUMBER= no # not really a number 158 # expect+1: no. 159 .info ${${STRING} == "literal" && ${NUMBER} >= 10:?yes:no}. 160 # expect+2: Comparison with ">=" requires both operands "no" and "10" to be numeric 161 # expect+1: . 162 .info ${${STRING} == "literal" || ${NUMBER} >= 10:?yes:no}. 163 164 # The following situation occasionally occurs with MKINET6 or similar 165 # variables. 166 NUMBER= # empty, not really a number either 167 # expect+2: Bad condition 168 # expect+1: . 169 .info ${${STRING} == "literal" && ${NUMBER} >= 10:?yes:no}. 170 # expect+2: Bad condition 171 # expect+1: . 172 .info ${${STRING} == "literal" || ${NUMBER} >= 10:?yes:no}. 173 174 # CondParser_LeafToken handles [0-9-+] specially, treating them as a number. 175 PLUS= + 176 ASTERISK= * 177 EMPTY= # empty 178 # "true" since "+" is not the empty string. 179 # expect+1: <true> 180 .info <${${PLUS} :?true:false}> 181 # "false" since the variable named "*" is not defined. 182 # expect+1: <false> 183 .info <${${ASTERISK} :?true:false}> 184 # syntax error since the condition is completely blank. 185 # expect+2: Bad condition 186 # expect+1: <> 187 .info <${${EMPTY} :?true:false}> 188 189 190 # Since the condition of the '?:' modifier is expanded before being parsed and 191 # evaluated, it is common practice to enclose expressions in quotes, to avoid 192 # producing syntactically invalid conditions such as ' == value'. This only 193 # works if the expanded values neither contain quotes nor backslashes. For 194 # strings containing quotes or backslashes, the '?:' modifier should not be 195 # used. 196 PRIMES= 2 3 5 7 11 197 .if ${1 2 3 4 5:L:@n@$n:${ ("${PRIMES:M$n}" != "") :?prime:not_prime}@} != \ 198 "1:not_prime 2:prime 3:prime 4:not_prime 5:prime" 199 . error 200 .endif 201 202 # When parsing the modifier ':?', there are 3 possible cases: 203 # 204 # 1. The whole expression is only parsed. 205 # 2. The expression is parsed and the 'then' branch is evaluated. 206 # 3. The expression is parsed and the 'else' branch is evaluated. 207 # 208 # In all of these cases, the expression must be parsed in the same way, 209 # especially when one of the branches contains unbalanced '{}' braces. 210 # 211 # At 2020-01-01, the expressions from the 'then' and 'else' branches were 212 # parsed differently, depending on whether the branch was taken or not. When 213 # the branch was taken, the parser recognized that in the modifier ':S,}},,', 214 # the '}}' were ordinary characters. When the branch was not taken, the 215 # parser only counted balanced '{' and '}', ignoring any escaping or other 216 # changes in the interpretation. 217 # 218 # In var.c 1.285 from 2020-07-20, the parsing of the expressions changed so 219 # that in both cases the expression is parsed in the same way, taking the 220 # unbalanced braces in the ':S' modifiers into account. This change was not 221 # on purpose, the commit message mentioned 'has the same effect', which was a 222 # wrong assumption. 223 # 224 # In var.c 1.323 from 2020-07-26, the unintended fix from var.c 1.285 was 225 # reverted, still not knowing about the difference between regular parsing and 226 # balanced-mode parsing. 227 # 228 # In var.c 1.1028 from 2022-08-08, there was another attempt at fixing this 229 # inconsistency in parsing, but since that broke parsing of the modifier ':@', 230 # it was reverted in var.c 1.1029 from 2022-08-23. 231 # 232 # In var.c 1.1047 from 2023-02-18, the inconsistency in parsing was finally 233 # fixed. The modifier ':@' now parses the body in balanced mode, while 234 # everywhere else the modifier parts have their subexpressions parsed in the 235 # same way, no matter whether they are evaluated or not. 236 # 237 # The modifiers ':@' and ':?' are similar in that they conceptually contain 238 # text to be evaluated later or conditionally, still they parse that text 239 # differently. The crucial difference is that the body of the modifier ':@' 240 # is always parsed using balanced mode. The modifier ':?', on the other hand, 241 # must parse both of its branches in the same way, no matter whether they are 242 # evaluated or not. Since balanced mode and standard mode are incompatible, 243 # it's impossible to use balanced mode in the modifier ':?'. 244 .MAKEFLAGS: -dc 245 .if 0 && ${1:?${:Uthen0:S,}},,}:${:Uelse0:S,}},,}} != "not evaluated" 246 # At 2020-01-07, the expression evaluated to 'then0,,}}', even though it was 247 # irrelevant as the '0' had already been evaluated to 'false'. 248 . error 249 .endif 250 .if 1 && ${0:?${:Uthen1:S,}},,}:${:Uelse1:S,}},,}} != "else1" 251 . error 252 .endif 253 .if 2 && ${1:?${:Uthen2:S,}},,}:${:Uelse2:S,}},,}} != "then2" 254 # At 2020-01-07, the whole expression evaluated to 'then2,,}}' instead of the 255 # expected 'then2'. The 'then' branch of the ':?' modifier was parsed 256 # normally, parsing and evaluating the ':S' modifier, thereby treating the 257 # '}}' as ordinary characters and resulting in 'then2'. The 'else' branch was 258 # parsed in balanced mode, ignoring that the inner '}}' were ordinary 259 # characters. The '}}' were thus interpreted as the end of the 'else' branch 260 # and the whole expression. This left the trailing ',,}}', which together 261 # with the 'then2' formed the result 'then2,,}}'. 262 . error 263 .endif 264 265 266 # Since the condition is taken from the variable name of the expression, not 267 # from its value, it is evaluated early. It is possible though to construct 268 # conditions that are evaluated lazily, at exactly the right point. There is 269 # no way to escape a '$' directly in the variable name, but there are 270 # alternative ways to bring a '$' into the condition. 271 # 272 # In an indirect condition using the ':U' modifier, each '$', ':' and 273 # '}' must be escaped as '\$', '\:' and '\}', respectively, but '{' must 274 # not be escaped. 275 # 276 # In an indirect condition using a separate variable, each '$' must be 277 # escaped as '$$'. 278 # 279 # These two forms allow the variables to contain arbitrary characters, as the 280 # condition parser does not see them. 281 DELAYED= two 282 # expect+1: no 283 .info ${ ${:U \${DELAYED\} == "one"}:?yes:no} 284 # expect+1: yes 285 .info ${ ${:U \${DELAYED\} == "two"}:?yes:no} 286 INDIRECT_COND1= $${DELAYED} == "one" 287 # expect+1: no 288 .info ${ ${INDIRECT_COND1}:?yes:no} 289 INDIRECT_COND2= $${DELAYED} == "two" 290 # expect+1: yes 291 .info ${ ${INDIRECT_COND2}:?yes:no} 292 293 294 .MAKEFLAGS: -d0 295 296 297 # In the modifier parts for the 'then' and 'else' branches, subexpressions are 298 # parsed by inspecting the actual modifiers. In 2008, 2015, 2020, 2022 and 299 # 2023, the exact parsing algorithm switched a few times, counting balanced 300 # braces instead of proper subexpressions, which meant that unbalanced braces 301 # were parsed differently, depending on whether the branch was active or not. 302 BRACES= }}} 303 NO= ${0:?${BRACES:S,}}},yes,}:${BRACES:S,}}},no,}} 304 YES= ${1:?${BRACES:S,}}},yes,}:${BRACES:S,}}},no,}} 305 BOTH= <${YES}> <${NO}> 306 .if ${BOTH} != "<yes> <no>" 307 . error 308 .endif 309 310 311 # expect+2: Unknown modifier ":X-then" 312 # expect+1: Unknown modifier ":X-else" 313 .if ${1:?${:X-then}:${:X-else}} 314 .endif 315 316 317 # expect+4: Bad condition 318 # expect+3: Unknown modifier ":Z1" 319 # expect+2: Unknown modifier ":Z2" 320 # expect+1: <> 321 .info <${ < 0 :?${:Z1}:${:Z2}}> 322