cond-cmp-string.mk revision 1.6 1 # $NetBSD: cond-cmp-string.mk,v 1.6 2020/10/24 08:46:08 rillig Exp $
2 #
3 # Tests for string comparisons in .if conditions.
4
5 # This is a simple comparison of string literals.
6 # Nothing surprising here.
7 .if "str" != "str"
8 . error
9 .endif
10
11 # The right-hand side of the comparison may be written without quotes.
12 .if "str" != str
13 . error
14 .endif
15
16 # The left-hand side of the comparison must be enclosed in quotes.
17 # This one is not enclosed in quotes and thus generates an error message.
18 .if str != str
19 . error
20 .endif
21
22 # The left-hand side of the comparison requires a defined variable.
23 # The variable named "" is not defined, but applying the :U modifier to it
24 # makes it "kind of defined" (see VAR_KEEP). Therefore it is ok here.
25 .if ${:Ustr} != "str"
26 . error
27 .endif
28
29 # Any character in a string literal may be escaped using a backslash.
30 # This means that "\n" does not mean a newline but a simple "n".
31 .if "string" != "\s\t\r\i\n\g"
32 . error
33 .endif
34
35 # It is not possible to concatenate two string literals to form a single
36 # string.
37 .if "string" != "str""ing"
38 . error
39 .endif
40
41 # There is no = operator for strings.
42 .if !("value" = "value")
43 . error
44 .else
45 . error
46 .endif
47
48 # There is no === operator for strings either.
49 .if !("value" === "value")
50 . error
51 .else
52 . error
53 .endif
54
55