Re: [Boost-build] Putting quotes around compiler option

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Putting quotes around compiler option
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-05-06 21:03:06

On 5/6/2017 2:19 PM, Steven Watanabe via Boost-build wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> On 05/06/2017 12:14 PM, Edward Diener via Boost-build wrote:
>> Is there any way I can force Boost Build to pass a compiler option with
>> quotes ( " ) around the option when I specify the compiler option in a
>> jam file ?
>>
> 
> Jam parses quotes.  You need to escape them with '\'.

Thanks, that worked. But unfortunately there are other options being 
passed to the toolset, which I do not control via a bjam toolset 
definition, which also need to be quoted.

The reason for quoting an option is that if I use as the compiler 
command a windows batch file, which eventually invokes the compiler 
command, all unquoted options which have an equal sign ( = ) are broken 
into two separate options with the equal sign seen as a delimiter.

The solution as I see it is to use a python script rather than a Windows 
batch file.

> 
> In Christ,
> Steven Watanabe