I am experiencing what I consider a bug with the Ninja generator on Windows.  I 
am using CMake 2.8.11.1 and I believe the latest Ninja from github.  However, I 
do not believe this to be version specific.

Some of my builds use add_custom_command specifying WORKING_DIRECTORY as an 
argument.  When I have WORKING_DIRECTORY set to a directory on a drive that is 
not the same as my CMake build directory ninja builds will fail because it 
attempts to set the working directory by simply cd'ing to the 
WORKING_DIRECTORY.  In the windows cmd prompts this will fail because you need 
to issue 2 commands.  For instance if my CMake build directory is on 
C:\build_dir and the working directory is on Z:\working_dir ninja should issue:
   Z:
   cd Z:\working_dir
instead of just:
   cd Z:\working_dir

The annoying part of the bug is that the cd to Z:\working_dir command 
technically succeeds but doesn't change the current working directory.  Then 
the custom command itself will fail rather than the ninja command trying to cd 
because it is in the wrong working directory.

Am I mistaken or is this the behavior that others experience as well?

I imagine this would be an easy bug to fix and since I do these types of builds 
often it would be very much appreciated if it was.

-Kris Malfettone

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