cond-late.mk revision 1.3
11.3Srillig# $NetBSD: cond-late.mk,v 1.3 2020/11/15 14:07:53 rillig Exp $
21.1Srillig#
31.1Srillig# Using the :? modifier, variable expressions can contain conditional
41.3Srillig# expressions that are evaluated late, at expansion time.
51.3Srillig#
61.3Srillig# Any variables appearing in these
71.1Srillig# conditions are expanded before parsing the condition.  This is
81.1Srillig# different from many other places.
91.1Srillig#
101.1Srillig# Because of this, variables that are used in these lazy conditions
111.1Srillig# should not contain double-quotes, or the parser will probably fail.
121.1Srillig#
131.1Srillig# They should also not contain operators like == or <, since these are
141.1Srillig# actually interpreted as these operators. This is demonstrated below.
151.1Srillig#
161.1Srillig
171.2Srilligall: cond-literal
181.2Srillig
191.1SrilligCOND.true=	"yes" == "yes"
201.1SrilligCOND.false=	"yes" != "yes"
211.1Srillig
221.3Srillig# If the order of evaluation were to change to first parse the condition
231.3Srillig# and then expand the variables, the output would change from the
241.3Srillig# current "yes no" to "yes yes", since both variables are non-empty.
251.2Srilligcond-literal:
261.1Srillig	@echo ${ ${COND.true} :?yes:no}
271.1Srillig	@echo ${ ${COND.false} :?yes:no}
281.2Srillig
291.2SrilligVAR+=	${${UNDEF} != "no":?:}
301.2Srillig.if empty(VAR:Mpattern)
311.2Srillig.endif
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