Re: [Boost-build] SHELL and trailing newlines

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-04 15:42:52

"Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> skrev i meddelandet 
news:45240ADA.5090902_at_gmail.com...
> Johan Nilsson wrote:
>> "Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> skrev i meddelandet
>> news:452406C8.6010104_at_gmail.com...
>>
>>> SHELL/COMMAND to act as the CLI shell do. Perhaps an
>>> "eol-delimited-output":
>>>
>>>   LIBXML_INCLUDES = [ SHELL "pkg-config --cflags libxml-2.0" :
>>> eol-delimited-output ] ;
>>>
>>> One might want to implement a 'ws-delimited-output' at the same time :-)
>>
>> Why not use MATCH on the output to remove whatever you want? Or am I 
>> missing
>> something?
>
> Not missing anything :-) One advantage to doing this at the SHELL level
> is that it will use less memory, because it can parse the output as it
> comes in and hence saves of having the possibly big output string around.

Ok, how about simply allowing a regex expression as the delimiter parameter, 
with eol as the default (or perhaps the default should be to get the 
complete output)?

// Johan