Re: [jamboost] property.as-path

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-02 05:01:57

David Abrahams wrote:
> I have made the previously-discussed improvements to property.as-path.

Thank you! 

> test_all.py is failing on Windows due to extra whitespace in the output
> file. I'm not sure what to make of that. Vladimir, could you have a look?

<flame>
I hate windows shells!
</flame>

The problem is that 
1. Consider the following bat file

@start
echo debug>bin\a.exe 
echo bin\a.obj>>bin\a.exe
@end

I would expect that the first line of bin\a.exe should contain "debug" and 
nothing more. But, if there's a trailing space on the first line of bat file, 
it is transferred to bin\a.exe

2. Consider 
actions yfc-compile { echo foo > bar } 
Here, jam happily takes everything inside "{}", *including spaces* to be 
action text. 

Fixing jam would be good, but in the short time I'll introduce new method 
"read_and_strip". I also plan to add a new method
"expect_content" which will take care of stripping and slashes direction.

- Volodya