From 8943945efe9df6c4bb07d67d91c9f372da353199 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jussi Pakkanen Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:16:37 +0300 Subject: Xcode: replace all backslashes with eight backslashes. Because obviously. --- mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'mesonbuild') diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py b/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py index 54fc22916..70d1b8ba0 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py +++ b/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py @@ -1405,6 +1405,10 @@ class XCodeBackend(backends.Backend): if args: quoted_args = [] for a in args: + # This works but + # a) it's ugly as sin + # b) I don't know why it works or why every backslash must be escaped into eight backslashes + a = a.replace(chr(92), 8*chr(92)) # chr(92) is backslash, this how we smuggle it in without Python's quoting grabbing it. a = a.replace(r'"', r'\\\"') if ' ' in a: a = r'\"' + a + r'\"' -- cgit v1.2.3