[Bf-committers] Scons can't define strings with spaces

Sergey Kurdakov sergey.forum at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 21:01:03 CET 2011


Hi  Lars,

>> env['RCFLAGS'].append("-DTEST=\"a space\"")
>> env['RCFLAGS'].append("-DTEST=\"nospace\"")
>>
>> Gives:
>>
>> windres "-DTEST="a space"" -DTEST="nospace"

among scons docs there is a phrase:


string surrounded by double quotation marks is interpreted as a single
argument, regardless of white space contained within

so
 env['RCFLAGS'].append(""-DTEST=\"a space\""")

might be what you are looking for ( not tested though )

Regards
Sergey


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