Support more configurability in GN toolchains

tools/gn/escape.cc

Index: tools/gn/escape.cc
diff --git a/tools/gn/escape.cc b/tools/gn/escape.cc
index 58bb04e7f771e7f207a3bb293d009ec74264d47e..06f6ee8bec3d6b6758a62b498506b26aa09c85da 100644
--- a/tools/gn/escape.cc
+++ b/tools/gn/escape.cc
@@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ void EscapeStringToString_Ninja(const base::StringPiece& str,
     NinjaEscapeChar(str[i], dest);
 }
 
+template<typename DestString>
+void EscapeStringToString_NinjaPreformatted(const base::StringPiece& str,
+                                            DestString* dest) {
+  // Only Ninja-escape $.
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < str.size(); i++) {
+    if (str[i] == '$')
+      dest->push_back('$');

[jamesr, 2014/08/19 19:30:41]

what is this accomplishing? it looks like this function is just a string copy...

[brettw, 2014/08/19 21:29:56]

It's a string copy that converts "$" -> "$$" (the char is still copied in the
case below)

+    dest->push_back(str[i]);
+  }
+}
+
 // Escape for CommandLineToArgvW and additionally escape Ninja characters.
 //
 // The basic algorithm is if the string doesn't contain any parse-affecting
@@ -166,6 +177,9 @@ void EscapeStringToString(const base::StringPiece& str,
           NOTREACHED();
       }
       break;
+    case ESCAPE_NINJA_PREFORMATTED_COMMAND:
+      EscapeStringToString_NinjaPreformatted(str, dest);
+      break;
     default:
       NOTREACHED();
   }