[cmake-developers] Custom Command Escapes

[Brad King]

Brad King wrote:
> 2.) Add a VERBATIM argument to explicitly enable the new behavior:
> 
> ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(some_target VERBATIM
>   COMMAND some_exe -DVAR='single-quotes'
>   )
> 
> pro: Completely compatible.  New syntax is needed to change behavior.
> con: The correct behavior has ugly syntax compared to the old behavior.
[snip]
> Note that the cases when working old behavior is changed by the new code
> are rare.  The above single-quotes example was contrived.  The same
> example with backslashes breaks with the old behavior.  Most working
> code will continue to work because it does not need to work-around this
> bug.  For this reason I'm tempted to choose #4.

I've decided to go with option #2 since most users won't have to use the
option anyway.

-Brad