[Scons-users] dollar sign in source file path

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Gilles,


please try to double the dollar signs, as in:

Program('my$$main', 'my$$main.cpp')


which works fine on my side.


Best regards,


Dirk


P.S.: See also 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7159612/scons-prevent-text-expansion-in-construction-variable 
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On 07.02.2017 16:50, Gilles CARRY wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a bunch of source files having a '$' (dollar) sign in the path.
> Unfortunately, I have no control over these files so I cannot rename them.
> When declaring these files as input files or dependencies (using
> env.Command() or env.Depends() ) to build the target, I get this error:
>       scons: *** SyntaxError `unexpected EOF while parsing (<string>,
> line 1)' trying to evaluate `$SOMETHING.class'
>
> [...]