| # This allows us to work with the newline character: | |
| define newline | |
| endef | |
| newline := $(newline) | |
| # nl-escape | |
| # | |
| # Usage: escape = $(call nl-escape[,escape]) | |
| # | |
| # This is used as the common way to specify | |
| # what should replace a newline when escaping | |
| # newlines; the default is a bizarre string. | |
| # | |
| nl-escape = $(if $(1),$(1),m822df3020w6a44id34bt574ctac44eb9f4n) | |
| # escape-nl | |
| # | |
| # Usage: escaped-text = $(call escape-nl,text[,escape]) | |
| # | |
| # GNU make's $(shell ...) function converts to a | |
| # single space each newline character in the output | |
| # produced during the expansion; this may not be | |
| # desirable. | |
| # | |
| # The only solution is to change each newline into | |
| # something that won't be converted, so that the | |
| # information can be recovered later with | |
| # $(call unescape-nl...) | |
| # | |
| escape-nl = $(subst $(newline),$(call nl-escape,$(2)),$(1)) | |
| # unescape-nl | |
| # | |
| # Usage: text = $(call unescape-nl,escaped-text[,escape]) | |
| # | |
| # See escape-nl. | |
| # | |
| unescape-nl = $(subst $(call nl-escape,$(2)),$(newline),$(1)) | |
| # shell-escape-nl | |
| # | |
| # Usage: $(shell some-command | $(call shell-escape-nl[,escape])) | |
| # | |
| # Use this to escape newlines from within a shell call; | |
| # the default escape is a bizarre string. | |
| # | |
| # NOTE: The escape is used directly as a string constant | |
| # in an `awk' program that is delimited by shell | |
| # single-quotes, so be wary of the characters | |
| # that are chosen. | |
| # | |
| define shell-escape-nl | |
| awk 'NR==1 {t=$$0} NR>1 {t=t "$(nl-escape)" $$0} END {printf t}' | |
| endef | |
| # shell-unescape-nl | |
| # | |
| # Usage: $(shell some-command | $(call shell-unescape-nl[,escape])) | |
| # | |
| # Use this to unescape newlines from within a shell call; | |
| # the default escape is a bizarre string. | |
| # | |
| # NOTE: The escape is used directly as an extended regular | |
| # expression constant in an `awk' program that is | |
| # delimited by shell single-quotes, so be wary | |
| # of the characters that are chosen. | |
| # | |
| # (The bash shell has a bug where `{gsub(...),...}' is | |
| # misinterpreted as a brace expansion; this can be | |
| # overcome by putting a space between `{' and `gsub'). | |
| # | |
| define shell-unescape-nl | |
| awk 'NR==1 {t=$$0} NR>1 {t=t "\n" $$0} END { gsub(/$(nl-escape)/,"\n",t); printf t }' | |
| endef | |
| # escape-for-shell-sq | |
| # | |
| # Usage: embeddable-text = $(call escape-for-shell-sq,text) | |
| # | |
| # This function produces text that is suitable for | |
| # embedding in a shell string that is delimited by | |
| # single-quotes. | |
| # | |
| escape-for-shell-sq = $(subst ','\'',$(1)) | |
| # shell-sq | |
| # | |
| # Usage: single-quoted-and-escaped-text = $(call shell-sq,text) | |
| # | |
| shell-sq = '$(escape-for-shell-sq)' | |
| # shell-wordify | |
| # | |
| # Usage: wordified-text = $(call shell-wordify,text) | |
| # | |
| # For instance: | |
| # | |
| # |define text | |
| # |hello | |
| # |world | |
| # |endef | |
| # | | |
| # |target: | |
| # | echo $(call shell-wordify,$(text)) | |
| # | |
| # At least GNU make gets confused by expanding a newline | |
| # within the context of a command line of a makefile rule | |
| # (this is in constrast to a `$(shell ...)' function call, | |
| # which can handle it just fine). | |
| # | |
| # This function avoids the problem by producing a string | |
| # that works as a shell word, regardless of whether or | |
| # not it contains a newline. | |
| # | |
| # If the text to be wordified contains a newline, then | |
| # an intrictate shell command substitution is constructed | |
| # to render the text as a single line; when the shell | |
| # processes the resulting escaped text, it transforms | |
| # it into the original unescaped text. | |
| # | |
| # If the text does not contain a newline, then this function | |
| # produces the same results as the `$(shell-sq)' function. | |
| # | |
| shell-wordify = $(if $(findstring $(newline),$(1)),$(_sw-esc-nl),$(shell-sq)) | |
| define _sw-esc-nl | |
| "$$(echo $(call escape-nl,$(shell-sq),$(2)) | $(call shell-unescape-nl,$(2)))" | |
| endef | |
| # is-absolute | |
| # | |
| # Usage: bool-value = $(call is-absolute,path) | |
| # | |
| is-absolute = $(shell echo $(shell-sq) | grep -q ^/ && echo y) | |
| # lookup | |
| # | |
| # Usage: absolute-executable-path-or-empty = $(call lookup,path) | |
| # | |
| # (It's necessary to use `sh -c' because GNU make messes up by | |
| # trying too hard and getting things wrong). | |
| # | |
| lookup = $(call unescape-nl,$(shell sh -c $(_l-sh))) | |
| _l-sh = $(call shell-sq,command -v $(shell-sq) | $(call shell-escape-nl,)) | |
| # is-executable | |
| # | |
| # Usage: bool-value = $(call is-executable,path) | |
| # | |
| # (It's necessary to use `sh -c' because GNU make messes up by | |
| # trying too hard and getting things wrong). | |
| # | |
| is-executable = $(call _is-executable-helper,$(shell-sq)) | |
| _is-executable-helper = $(shell sh -c $(_is-executable-sh)) | |
| _is-executable-sh = $(call shell-sq,test -f $(1) -a -x $(1) && echo y) | |
| # get-executable | |
| # | |
| # Usage: absolute-executable-path-or-empty = $(call get-executable,path) | |
| # | |
| # The goal is to get an absolute path for an executable; | |
| # the `command -v' is defined by POSIX, but it's not | |
| # necessarily very portable, so it's only used if | |
| # relative path resolution is requested, as determined | |
| # by the presence of a leading `/'. | |
| # | |
| get-executable = $(if $(1),$(if $(is-absolute),$(_ge-abspath),$(lookup))) | |
| _ge-abspath = $(if $(is-executable),$(1)) | |
| # get-supplied-or-default-executable | |
| # | |
| # Usage: absolute-executable-path-or-empty = $(call get-executable-or-default,variable,default) | |
| # | |
| define get-executable-or-default | |
| $(if $($(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$($(1)),$(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$(2))) | |
| endef | |
| _ge_attempt = $(or $(get-executable),$(call _gea_err,$(2))) | |
| _gea_err = $(if $(1),$(error Please set '$(1)' appropriately)) | |
| # version-ge3 | |
| # | |
| # Usage $(call version-ge3,2.6.4,$(FLEX_VERSION)) | |
| # | |
| # To compare if a 3 component version is greater or equal to another, first use | |
| # was to check the flex version to see if we can use compiler warnings as | |
| # errors for one of the cases flex generates code C compilers complains about. | |
| version-ge3 = $(shell echo "$(1).$(2)" | awk -F'.' '{ printf("%d\n", (10000000 * $$1 + 10000 * $$2 + $$3) >= (10000000 * $$4 + 10000 * $$5 + $$6)) }') | |
| # version-lt3 | |
| # | |
| # Usage $(call version-lt3,2.6.2,$(FLEX_VERSION)) | |
| # | |
| # To compare if a 3 component version is less thjan another, first use was to | |
| # check the flex version to see if we can use compiler warnings as errors for | |
| # one of the cases flex generates code C compilers complains about. | |
| version-lt3 = $(shell echo "$(1).$(2)" | awk -F'.' '{ printf("%d\n", (10000000 * $$1 + 10000 * $$2 + $$3) < (10000000 * $$4 + 10000 * $$5 + $$6)) }') |