qmake escapes spaces within environment variables

[Tom asso]

I have a linux environment variable defined as:

export GMT_LIBS='-L/bogusDir -lgmt'

I want to access MYLIBS from within my .pro file and add it to the LIBS variable:

gmtLibs = $$getenv("GMT_LIBS")
LIBS += $gmtLibs

But when qmake is generating a Makefile, it escapes the space within GMT_LIBS with back-slash, so the Makefile contains:

LIBS          = $(SUBLIBS) -L/bogusDir\ -lgmt

When ‘make’ processes this Makefile, it does not link with library -lgmt, so results in “undefined reference” errors. If I manually edit the Makefile and remove the ‘\’ preceding -lgmt, then rerun ‘make’, it links properly.

I get the same escaped space in the Makefile if the .pro file accesses environment variable with this instead of getenv():

LIBS += $$(GMT_LIBS)

So how do I convince qmake not to escape spaces within environment variables?

Thanks!

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Since these are two parameters but you treat it as one I would go with split()

[Tom asso]

@Christian-Ehrlicher - that works!

LIBS += $$split(gmtLibs, " ")

Thanks!