| ## Unescaped variables in pkgconfig files |
| |
| 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`. |
| |
| ```meson |
| pkg = import('pkgconfig') |
| ... |
| pkg.generate(lib, |
| variables: { |
| 'mypath': '/path/with spaces/are/escaped', |
| }, |
| unescaped_variables: { |
| 'mylist': 'Hello World Is Not Escaped', |
| }, |
| ) |
| ``` |
