CVS commit: src/usr.bin/make

["Roland Illig" <rillig%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   rillig
Date:           Sun Mar 14 18:02:44 UTC 2021

Modified Files:
        src/usr.bin/make: var.c
        src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests: var-eval-short.exp

Log Message:
make: only evaluate the ':@' modifier if the result is actually used

The test 'var-eval-short' had produced the output 'unexpected' before,
on stderr.  It had been generated by '${:Uword:@${FAIL}@expr@}' by
combining the following obscure "features" of make:

1.  the ':@' modifier loops over the words of the variable.  This
    modifier is not really obscure, it still takes some time to get used
    to it.

2.  the ':@' modifier allows a '$' sign in the variable name, which is
    useless in practice.

3.  the ':@' modifier creates a temporary loop variable in the global
    namespace.  Luckily there are only few collisions with other
    variable names since their naming conventions differ.

4.  after looping over the words of the expression, the temporary global
    loop variable is deleted, and at that point the '$' is expanded,
    being interpreted as the start of a variable expression.

5.  The ':@' modifier deleted the global variable even when it was
    called in parse-only mode (without VARE_WANTRES).

When the modifier ':@' was initially added to make in var.c 1.40 from
2000-04-29, Var_Delete didn't expand the variable name.  That feature
was added in var.c 1.174 from 2013-05-18, probably without thinking of
this very edge-casey combination of features.

This commit fixes item 5 from the above list.  The other obscurities
remain for now.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.869 -r1.870 src/usr.bin/make/var.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests/var-eval-short.exp

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