[build2] [bug-report] Parsing options-file fails when quoted value have spaces

Klaim - Joël Lamotte mjklaim at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 15:56:48 UTC 2019


On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 16:25, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com> wrote:
> Prior to the paragraph you've quoted there is this paragraph:
>
> "[...] Each option should appearing on a separate line optionally followed
> by space and an option value. Empty lines and lines starting with # are
> ignored. Option values can be enclosed in double (") or single (') quotes
> to preserve leading and trailing whitespaces as well as to specify empty
> values. [...]"
>
> Specifically, according to the documentation, the option name should
> be separated from value with a space, not '='. (Though we probably
> should support '=' if it's enabled for options so I've added an item
> to the TODO list.)

Oh I see, I didn't understand that `Each option` as meaning the option
name only: to me the whole "name='value value'" was the "option". I
stand corrected.

Thanks!

Joël



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