# $NetBSD: cond-late.mk,v 1.6 2023/12/10 20:12:28 rillig Exp $ # # Using the :? modifier, expressions can contain conditional # expressions that are evaluated late, at expansion time. # # Any expressions appearing in these conditions are expanded before parsing # the condition. This is different from conditions in .if directives, where # expressions are evaluated individually and only as far as necessary, see # cond-short.mk. # # Because of this, variables that are used in these lazy conditions # should not contain double-quotes, or the parser will probably fail. # # They should also not contain operators like == or <, since these are # actually interpreted as these operators. This is demonstrated below. # all: cond-literal COND.true= "yes" == "yes" COND.false= "yes" != "yes" # If the order of evaluation were to change to first parse the condition # and then expand the variables, the output would change from the # current "yes no" to "yes yes", since both variables are non-empty. # expect: yes # expect: no cond-literal: @echo ${ ${COND.true} :?yes:no} @echo ${ ${COND.false} :?yes:no} VAR= ${${UNDEF} != "no":?:} # expect-reset # expect: make: Bad conditional expression ' != "no"' before '?:' .if empty(VAR:Mpattern) .endif