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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# Copyright 2012. Jurko Gospodnetic
+# Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
+# (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
+# http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+#   Tests that variables in actions get expanded but double quote characters
+# get treated as regular characters and not string literal delimiters when
+# determining string tokens concatenated to the variable being expanded.
+#
+#   We also take care to make this test work correctly when run using both
+# Windows and Unix echo command variant. That is why we add the extra single
+# quotes around the text being echoed - they will make the double quotes be
+# displayed as regular characters in both cases but will be displayed
+# themselves only when using the Windows cmd shell's echo command.
+
+import BoostBuild
+
+t = BoostBuild.Tester(pass_toolset=0)
+t.write("file.jam", """\
+rule dummy ( i )
+{
+    local a = 1 2 3 ;
+    ECHO From "rule:" $(a)" seconds" ;
+    a on $(i) = $(a) ;
+}
+
+actions dummy
+{
+    echo 'From action: $(a)" seconds"'
+}
+
+dummy all ;
+""")
+t.run_build_system(["-ffile.jam", "-d1"])
+t.expect_output_lines("From rule: 1 seconds 2 seconds 3 seconds")
+t.expect_output_lines('*From action: 1" 2" 3" seconds"*')
+t.cleanup()