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-rw-r--r--mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py b/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py
index 54fc229..70d1b8b 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py
@@ -1405,6 +1405,10 @@ class XCodeBackend(backends.Backend):
if args:
quoted_args = []
for a in args:
+ # This works but
+ # a) it's ugly as sin
+ # b) I don't know why it works or why every backslash must be escaped into eight backslashes
+ a = a.replace(chr(92), 8*chr(92)) # chr(92) is backslash, this how we smuggle it in without Python's quoting grabbing it.
a = a.replace(r'"', r'\\\"')
if ' ' in a:
a = r'\"' + a + r'\"'