Support special characters in file names. (Charles Crain)

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Node/NodeTests.py b/src/engine/SCons/Node/NodeTests.py
index 8ae7165..cd2d2e3 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Node/NodeTests.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Node/NodeTests.py
@@ -682,7 +682,11 @@ class NodeTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         assert not hasattr(nodes[1], 'b'), nodes[1]
         assert not hasattr(nodes[1], 'bbbb'), nodes[0]
         assert nodes[1].c == 1, nodes[1]
-
+        
+    def test_literal(self):
+        """Test the is_literal() function."""
+        n=SCons.Node.Node()
+        assert n.is_literal()
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Node/__init__.py b/src/engine/SCons/Node/__init__.py
index 22bf949..1afc79f 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Node/__init__.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Node/__init__.py
@@ -394,6 +394,11 @@ class Node:
     def rstr(self):
         return str(self)
 
+    def is_literal(self):
+        """Always pass the string representation of a Node to
+        the command interpreter literally."""
+        return 1
+
 def get_children(node, parent): return node.children()
 def ignore_cycle(node, stack): pass
 def do_nothing(node, parent): pass