ENH: Adding Shell_Flag_EchoWindows option to setup escapes for arguments to the native echo command in a shell. This special case is needed to avoid adding quotes when passing text to echo in a native windows shell which does no command line parsing at all.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Source/kwsys/System.h.in b/Source/kwsys/System.h.in
index b125473..8c7d2a8 100644
--- a/Source/kwsys/System.h.in
+++ b/Source/kwsys/System.h.in
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #define kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_e                     kwsys_ns(System_Shell_Flag_e)
 #define kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_Make                  kwsys_ns(System_Shell_Flag_Make)
 #define kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_VSIDE                 kwsys_ns(System_Shell_Flag_VSIDE)
+#define kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_EchoWindows           kwsys_ns(System_Shell_Flag_EchoWindows)
 #define kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_AllowMakeVariables    kwsys_ns(System_Shell_Flag_AllowMakeVariables)
 
 #if defined(__cplusplus)
@@ -78,12 +79,15 @@ enum kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_e
       Shell_Flag_Make.  */
   kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_VSIDE              = (1<<1),
 
+  /** In a windows whell the argument is being passed to "echo".  */
+  kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_EchoWindows        = (1<<2),
+
   /** Make variable reference syntax $(MAKEVAR) should not be escaped
       to allow a build tool to replace it.  Replacement values
       containing spaces, quotes, backslashes, or other
       non-alphanumeric characters that have significance to some makes
       or shells produce undefined behavior.  */
-  kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_AllowMakeVariables = (1<<2)
+  kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_AllowMakeVariables = (1<<3)
 };
 
 #if defined(__cplusplus)
@@ -102,6 +106,7 @@ enum kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_e
 # undef kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_e
 # undef kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_Make
 # undef kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_VSIDE
+# undef kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_EchoWindows
 # undef kwsysSystem_Shell_Flag_AllowMakeVariables
 #endif