[CMake] Deal with semicolons in ENV passed to RootTestDriver#21074
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This is important for Windows support.
The processing of the environment variables in the RootTestDriver used excessive CMake string-to-list parsing, and the semicolons would have to be escaped for each of these parsings. That means the RootTestDriver command needed to include a magic number amount of escape characters to propagate semicolons to the final environment variables. The fix is to escape semicolons once in the beginning, and then re-escape them after each step that involves list parsing. Like this, the command can contain just bare semicolons without having to escape anything. In a next step, one can consider giving the same treatment to the `ROOT_ADD_TEST` macro, which also does excessive list parsing. Then we don't need tricks like the `$<SEMICOLON>` generator expression anymore to propagate semicolons into the final command.
This is for correct Windows support.
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The processing of the environment variables in the RootTestDriver used excessive CMake string-to-list parsing, and the semicolons would have to be escaped for each of these parsings. That means the RootTestDriver command needed to include a magic number amount of escape characters to propagate semicolons to the final environment variables.
The fix is to escape semicolons once in the beginning, and then re-escape them after each step that involves list parsing.
Like this, the command can contain just bare semicolons without having to escape anything.
In a next step, one can consider giving the same treatment to the
ROOT_ADD_TESTmacro, which also does excessive list parsing. Then we don't need tricks like the$<SEMICOLON>generator expression anymore to propagate semicolons into the final command.Follows up on a comment by @pcanal: #21056 (comment)