[Scons-users] Testing ninja build generator

[Mats Wichmann]

On 6/6/25 10:42, Julien Pommier wrote:
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>> There's another layer of "quoting problem" here, beyond the URL-quoting that I'm trying to understand.
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>> As written, the rule in build.ninja looks like:
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>> build run$ me.sh: TEMPLATE | .ninja/scons_daemon_dirty
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>> I'm assuming the '$' is some kind of space-escape syntax for ninja. This fails with
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>> scons: *** Do not know how to make File target `run'
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> It seems the quoting need to be applied to the line 234 in ninja_scons_daemon.py. Using:
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>                      input_command = "build \"" + building_node + "\"\n"
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> instead of
>                     input_command = "build " + building_node + "\n"
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> makes it work for my test-case

yeah, that looks good.