Absolute MSVC linker path in config has to be double quoted.

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Currently I have to double quote the <linker> setting in a project config file, otherwise msvc.archive commands fail with the error message:

'C:/Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Start of the config used in the b2 command line option --project-config=config.jam:

using msvc : 14.2 : "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.25.28610/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe" :

<linker>"\"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.25.28610/bin/Hostx64/x64/link.exe\""

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Is this intentional? Sometimes an absolute path is necessary, for example if the linker is replaced by a different version or with lld-link.exe which is not in PATH.

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