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Diffstat (limited to 'mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py b/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py index 977bcdd..968fcf9 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py +++ b/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py @@ -158,7 +158,10 @@ class NinjaBuildElement: line = line.replace('\\', '/') outfile.write(line) - # All the entries that should remain unquoted + # ninja variables whose value should remain unquoted. The value of these + # ninja variables (or variables we use them in) is interpreted directly + # by ninja (e.g. the value of the depfile variable is a pathname that + # ninja will read from, etc.), so it must not be shell quoted. raw_names = {'DEPFILE', 'DESC', 'pool', 'description'} for e in self.elems: |