[A-a-p-user] Quoting in attributes of :program targets

[Adriaan de G. <ad...@cs...>]

Hi Bram et al.,

Thanks for all the answers yesterday. It makes quite a difference when someone 
demonstrates how to do something, as opposed to trying to figure it out from 
the manual and tutorial (which could certainly be expanded; it covers some 
very simple cases but not much more than that, and the overlap with the user 
manual is enormous -- I'll see what I can do.).

Anyway, today's problem comes from the following "Hello World" recipe:

LIBS=-L/usr/local/qt-3.1.1/lib
:program t   { add_LIBS = -pthread -lqt-mt } : t.c

fairly straightforward, but the attribute add_LIBS (is it an attribute?) is 
handled wrongly, for when I execute AAP:

eggs.ebn.kun.nl$aap
Aap: cc  -O2  -o t build-FreeBSD4_8_STABLE/t.o -L/usr/local/qt-3.1.1/lib 
"-pthread -lqt-mt"
cc: unrecognized option `-pthread -lqt-mt'

Naturally! Those quotes there are all wrong. Trying to work around this by 
assigning -pthread -lqt-mt to a variable, and using { add_LIBS = $t_LIBADD } 
yields the same result.

What to do, what to do? This would be of importance in a recipe where multiple 
programs are built from a single recipe, and where you need to specify the 
libraries for each.

(Incidentally, 

:program  t { LIBS = -pthread -lqt-mt } : t.c

doesn't do what I'd expect either, but that's because LIBS is a variable, and 
not an attribute (duh). Using var_LIBS = yields the same quoting problem as 
with add_LIBS)

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