[jamming] Escaping in jam

[david turner]

Hi Chris,

try:

DOLLAR = "$" ;
HDRS += $(DOLLAR)\\Include\\Mfc ;

Hope this helps,

- David Turner

Chris Tate a écrit :
> I'm beating my head against this a bit and not making much progress -- 
> i need to set a Jam variable to be a string that "looks" like a Jam 
> variable reference.  Backslash and double-quote escaping don't seem to 
> be working as I expect them to.  I'm using Jam on Windows XP.
>  
> The end result I'm trying to accomplish is to pass this flag to 
> Borland C++ Builder:
>  
>     "-I$(BCB)\Include\Mfc"
>  
> C++ Builder interprets the *literal* string "$(BCB)" itself; i need to 
> cause it to be passed unaltered to the compiler invocation.  Various 
> combinations of backslash escaping or double quoting don't seem to 
> work.  In particular, I find it quite strange that this works:
>  
>     HDRS += \$\\Include\\Mfc
>  
> to produce "-I$\Include\Mfc" in the compiler's invocation, but
>  
>     HDRS += \$\(BCB\)\\Include\\Mfc
>  
> is apparently *stripped*; no part of that fragment winds up in a -I 
> flag on the command line.
>  
> Help?
>  
> --
> chris tate
> chris.tate at openwave.com
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