Spaces in variable values are escaped with \
, this is required in the case the value is a path that and is used in cflags
or libs
arguments. This was an undocumented behaviour that caused issues in the case the variable is a space separated list of items.
For backward compatibility reasons this behaviour could not be changed, new keyword arguments have thus been added: unescaped_variables
and unescaped_uninstalled_variables
.
pkg = import('pkgconfig') ... pkg.generate(lib, variables: { 'mypath': '/path/with spaces/are/escaped', }, unescaped_variables: { 'mylist': 'Hello World Is Not Escaped', }, )