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| author | L. E. Segovia <amy@amyspark.me> | 2023-08-30 22:38:22 -0300 |
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| committer | Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> | 2023-09-15 07:31:37 -0400 |
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reference tables: Document how to set compiler paths with spaces in environment variables
See #11128
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md index 4a869ad..a21b40b 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md @@ -377,6 +377,26 @@ machine](#Environment-variables-per-machine) section for details. *The old environment variables are still supported, but are deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Meson.* +*changed in 1.3.0* Paths with spaces were split unconditionally to extract +components such as the [path to Ccache](Feature-autodetection.md#ccache), +intrinsic compiler flags like `-m32` or `--target`, etc. This broke passing +a hardcoded compiler path to CMake subprojects. To work around this, paths +must be wrapped with double quotes: + +```bash +export CC='"C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.34.31933/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe"' +``` + +You can also set the values through [machine files](Machine-files.md#binaries). + +*New in 1.3.0* Paths that point to an existing executable no longer need +wrapping: + +```bash +export CC='C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.34.31933/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe' +``` + + ## Environment variables per machine Since *0.54.0*, Following Autotool and other legacy build systems, |