[issue8987] Distutils doesn't quote Windows command lines properly

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

FWIW, the problem in the original post is that '-DMODULE_VERSION="1.0.5"' is not quoted by distutils and the quotes are eaten.

This can be fixed by specifying '-DMODULE_VERSION=\"1.0.5\"'. There are no spaces in the argument, so the problem is that cl.exe eats unescaped quotes, not that we aren't automatically changing users arguments.

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