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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2022-12-19 11:13:11 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2022-12-19 11:13:11 +0200
commit0cbd2d1d03ff96eb668fc6a14311d96ed0f9f8b5 (patch)
tree74fed02118a8ea7b78e8e069981301a6c511f633 /libbuild2/context.cxx
parent86bd93d16bfb2d44c6d894db43b7ccd29374fccb (diff)
Restore newline escaping (line continuations) in double-quoted strings
Also make effective escaping in buildspec and command line variable overrides consistent with double-quoted strings.
Diffstat (limited to 'libbuild2/context.cxx')
-rw-r--r--libbuild2/context.cxx7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libbuild2/context.cxx b/libbuild2/context.cxx
index c9f4340..08c4e7e 100644
--- a/libbuild2/context.cxx
+++ b/libbuild2/context.cxx
@@ -378,12 +378,13 @@ namespace build2
istringstream is (s);
is.exceptions (istringstream::failbit | istringstream::badbit);
- // Similar to buildspec we do "effective escaping" and only for ['"\$(]
- // (basically what's necessary inside a double-quoted literal plus the
+ // 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).
//
path_name in ("<cmdline>");
- lexer l (is, in, 1 /* line */, "\'\"\\$(");
+ lexer l (is, in, 1 /* line */, "\'\"\\$()\n");
// At the buildfile level the scope-specific variable should be
// separated from the directory with a whitespace, for example: