From 60d560b5a710f5490fa41ca15a8acbdb53cae79a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Griffis <tingping@tingping.se>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 05:41:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ninja: Fix quoting newlines and $

---
 mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py b/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py
index eaf4cac0a..59b87a3b1 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ else:
     rmfile_prefix = 'rm -f {} &&'
 
 def ninja_quote(text):
-    return text.replace(' ', '$ ').replace(':', '$:')
+    for char in ('$', ' ', ':', '\n'):
+        text = text.replace(char, '$' + char)
+    return text
 
 
 class NinjaBuildElement: