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Diffstat (limited to 'libbuild2/context.cxx')
| -rw-r--r-- | libbuild2/context.cxx | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libbuild2/context.cxx b/libbuild2/context.cxx index 08c4e7e..ccfa7f3 100644 --- a/libbuild2/context.cxx +++ b/libbuild2/context.cxx @@ -379,12 +379,13 @@ namespace build2 is.exceptions (istringstream::failbit | istringstream::badbit); // Similar to buildspec we do "effective escaping" of the special - // `'"\$(` characters, line continuations, plus `)` for symmetry - // (basically what's escapable inside a double-quoted literal plus the - // single quote). + // `'"\$(` characters plus `)` for symmetry (basically what's escapable + // inside a double-quoted literal plus the single quote; note, however, + // that we exclude line continuations since they would make directory + // paths on Windows unusable). // path_name in ("<cmdline>"); - lexer l (is, in, 1 /* line */, "\'\"\\$()\n"); + lexer l (is, in, 1 /* line */, "\'\"\\$()"); // At the buildfile level the scope-specific variable should be // separated from the directory with a whitespace, for example: |