[Omake] Strings

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 17.10.2007 03:18, Matthieu Dubuget wrote:

> I'm trying to pass a simple quoted string to a command line, but fail miserably.
> 
> I would like this to be given to the command line :
> \libpath:"..\lib"
> 
> 
> OMakefile                                                 Command line
> produced      Comments
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> LDFLAGS += AqDrv4.lib \libpath:"..\lib"      AqDrv4.lib
> \libpath:..\\lib     quotes disappeared
> 
>                                \ was escaped

Matthew,

You may be confusing the "pretty-printed" form of the command lines, 
which OMake prints out with the arguments that command being executed 
will actually get. To make sure you see what the command actually gets, 
use something like

.PHONY: test_ldflags
test_ldflags:
    echo $(LDFLAGS)

If you do want the command to actually get the quotes, then you need to 
escape or quote them. Either of the following would work

LDFLAGS += \libpath:$'"..\lib"'

- build . <test_ldflags>
+ Shell.echo(\libpath:'"..\\lib"')
\libpath:"..\lib"

LDFLAGS += \libpath:'"..\lib"'

- build . <test_ldflags>
+ Shell.echo(\libpath:"'"..\\lib"'")
\libpath:"..\lib"

LDFLAGS += \libpath:\"..\lib\"

- build . <test_ldflags>
+ Shell.echo(\libpath:\"..\lib\")
\libpath:"..\lib"

Aleksey

-- 
Aleksey Nogin, Research Scientist
Advanced Technologies Department, Information & System Sciences Lab
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA