# Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

import os
import shlex

from portage.process import find_binary


def validate_cmd_var(v):
    """
    Validate an environment variable value to see if it
    contains an executable command as the first token.
    returns (valid, token_list) where 'valid' is boolean and 'token_list'
    is the (possibly empty) list of tokens split by shlex.
    """
    invalid = False
    v_split = shlex.split(v)
    if not v_split:
        invalid = True
    elif os.path.isabs(v_split[0]):
        invalid = not os.access(v_split[0], os.EX_OK)
    elif find_binary(v_split[0]) is None:
        invalid = True
    return (not invalid, v_split)
