From 091459cbdf6261f677b29eb27e04666a331ad996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Turney Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:11:17 +0100 Subject: ninja: Expand comment on shell-unquoted ninja variables --- mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mesonbuild/backend') 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: -- cgit v1.1