[jamming] Escaping in jam

[Craig Allsop]

Sorry, didn't see the entire thread.

On 2/4/06, Craig Allsop <cjamallsop at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Like this...
>
> DOLLAR = $ ;
> echo "-I$(DOLLAR)(BCB)\\Include\\Mfc" ;
>
> Craig.
>
>
> On 2/2/06, Chris Tate < Chris.Tate at openwave.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm beating my head against this a bit and not making much progress -- i
> > need to set a Jam variable to be a string that "looks" like a Jam variable
> > reference.  Backslash and double-quote escaping don't seem to be working as
> > I expect them to.  I'm using Jam on Windows XP.
> >
> > The end result I'm trying to accomplish is to pass this flag to Borland
> > C++ Builder:
> >
> >     "-I$(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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