[Scons-users] Testing ninja build generator

[Mats Wichmann]

On 6/6/25 07:53, Julien Pommier wrote:

> # issue 2 : Whitespace in target failed with ninja builder
> runner2 = env.Textfile("run me.sh", "COUCOUCOU");
There's another layer of "quoting problem" here, beyond the URL-quoting 
that I'm trying to understand.

As written, the rule in build.ninja looks like:

build run$ me.sh: TEMPLATE | .ninja/scons_daemon_dirty

I'm assuming the '$' is some kind of space-escape syntax for ninja. This 
fails with

scons: *** Do not know how to make File target `run'

so we ended up seeing the target back in SCons as being just "run". 
Adding a layer of quotes doesn't work, as those are carefully preserved 
and the target names don't match.

Not familiar with this code beyond the fiddling I did in Utils.py, 
hopefully someone else has some ideas, else we'll have to dig into it.