AMDG

jono wrote:

it would be really useful for me to be able to define a string literal in a Jamfile...

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gcc -DNAME=\"variant\" does what i want, so i've also tried

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Think about what bjam does with the string.  It behaves a lot
like C++.  In other words, you use a backslash as an escape character.
You want to generate a \" sequence in the command line.  Both
of these are special characters, so they need to be escaped.

<define>NAME=\\\"variant\\\"

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe

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