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Implements MNG-8768 (GitHub #10115): adds an executable(name_or_path) function to Maven's condition-based profile activation DSL.

The function evaluates to true if the given executable name can be found in the system PATH, or if an absolute/relative path points directly to an executable file.

Use-case (from the issue): auto-detect the presence of x86_64-linux-musl-gcc when building GraalVM native images with the native-maven-plugin, and conditionally add --static --libc=musl to the build options only when the compiler wrapper is available on the current machine.

Example pom.xml usage:

executable('x86_64-linux-musl-gcc')

Implementation details:

  • ConditionFunctions.executable() delegates to new ExecutableFinder helper
  • ExecutableFinder splits the env.PATH system property and probes each directory; on Windows it also tries .exe / .cmd / .bat / .com extensions
  • Absolute/relative paths (containing a path separator) are checked directly without PATH traversal
  • PATH is sourced from ProfileActivationContext.getSystemProperty('env.PATH') (Maven's normalised env var key), with a System.getenv('PATH') fallback

Tests:

  • 5 new end-to-end tests in ConditionProfileActivatorTest (MNG-8768)
  • 12 new unit tests in ExecutableFinderTest covering PATH search, Windows extension probing, absolute paths, non-executable files, and empty PATH

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…on based on PATH

Implements MNG-8768 (GitHub apache#10115): adds an executable(name_or_path)
function to Maven's condition-based profile activation DSL.

The function evaluates to true if the given executable name can be found
in the system PATH, or if an absolute/relative path points directly to an
executable file.

Use-case (from the issue): auto-detect the presence of x86_64-linux-musl-gcc
when building GraalVM native images with the native-maven-plugin, and
conditionally add --static --libc=musl to the build options only when the
compiler wrapper is available on the current machine.

Example pom.xml usage:
  <activation>
    <condition>executable('x86_64-linux-musl-gcc')</condition>
  </activation>

Implementation details:
- ConditionFunctions.executable() delegates to new ExecutableFinder helper
- ExecutableFinder splits the env.PATH system property and probes each
  directory; on Windows it also tries .exe / .cmd / .bat / .com extensions
- Absolute/relative paths (containing a path separator) are checked directly
  without PATH traversal
- PATH is sourced from ProfileActivationContext.getSystemProperty('env.PATH')
  (Maven's normalised env var key), with a System.getenv('PATH') fallback

Tests:
- 5 new end-to-end tests in ConditionProfileActivatorTest (MNG-8768)
- 12 new unit tests in ExecutableFinderTest covering PATH search, Windows
  extension probing, absolute paths, non-executable files, and empty PATH
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