From 0169ccf15719d81a4799fdd8b51fee6a318f7d80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:50:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: Cannot add extra escapes for backslashes because it
 makes the behavior inconsistent with previous versions of cmake.

---
 Source/cmAddTestCommand.cxx | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Source/cmAddTestCommand.cxx b/Source/cmAddTestCommand.cxx
index 4a2cb2092..ec04928b3 100644
--- a/Source/cmAddTestCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmAddTestCommand.cxx
@@ -72,8 +72,10 @@ void cmAddTestCommand::FinalPass()
       fout << " \"";
       for(std::string::iterator c = it->begin(); c != it->end(); ++c)
         {
-        // Escape quotes and backslashes within arguments.
-        if((*c == '"') || (*c == '\\'))
+        // Escape quotes within arguments.  We should escape
+        // backslashes too but we cannot because it makes the result
+        // inconsistent with previous behavior of this command.
+        if((*c == '"'))
           {
           fout << '\\';
           }