Fix crash for updates to environment with empty strings #5350
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#4326 fixed the handling of
FOO = ""
insetenv
/build-env
, but for all the other operators, although opam can parse theenvironment
file, it crashes. The root cause of the crash is that our path split functions return[]
when passed an empty string (I think is a bad idea, but it comes from ocaml-re, and it's a bit pervasive -String.split_on_char
in the stdlib I think has a more coherent approach).The first commit fixes the crash. The second commit capitalises on the fact that opam has never supported
FOO += ""
correctly. The second commit causes opam to skip such updates entirely. This means, for example, thatPATH += ""
is ignored (if the package really intended adding the current directory toPATH
, thenPATH += "."
already works today).