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

# $NetBSD: cond-func-empty.mk,v 1.4 2020/09/04 20:28:16 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 indeed a variable name,
# optionally followed by variable modifiers.  This is like the defined()
# function.
#

.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, and
# after that the expression is no longer empty.  Because the variable
# was undefined in the first place, the expression has the flag VAR_JUNK
# but not VAR_KEEP, therefore it is still considered undefined.
# Only very few variable modifiers turn an undefined variable expression
# into a defined variable expression.  The :U and :D modifiers belong to
# that group, but :S doesn't (see VAR_KEEP).
#
# 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 modifies expressions based on undefined variables
# (VAR_JUNK) by adding the VAR_KEEP flag, which marks the expression
# as "being interesting enough to be further processed".
#
.if empty(UNDEF:S,^$,value,W:Ufallback)
.  error
.endif

# And now to the surprising part.  Applying the following :S modifier to the
# undefined variable makes it non-empty, but the marker VAR_JUNK is preserved
# nevertheless.  The :U modifier that follows only looks at VAR_JUNK to decide
# whether the variable is defined or not.  This kind of makes sense since the
# :U modifier tests the _variable_, not the _expression_.
#
# But since the variable was undefined to begin with, the fallback value is
# used in this expression.
#
.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 empty variable named "" gets a fallback value of " ", which counts as
# empty.
#
# 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.
#
.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 get_mpt_arg calls Var_Parse
# without VARE_UNDEFERR, the value of the undefined variable is 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, varNoError).
.if !empty()
.  error
.endif

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	@:;