Re: [Boost-build] new EXEC builtin command

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] new EXEC builtin command
From: Ray Lambert (codemonkey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-22 13:53:38

On 02/21/2012 12:00 PM, Marc Dürner wrote:
> Adding a new option would be fine, but strip-eol could be enough for me too.
> Though the existing strip-eol, should be fixed too, don't you think?
> If output from the command is longer than 1024 bytes, whitespace might
> be removed that is somewhere in the middle. I guess noone recognized
> this, because output from pkg-config and such tools is usually not
> that long...
Oops, you're right.  I'm not sure what I was thinking.  :|

I just submitted a patch (Ticket #6593 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6593>) that fixes this issue and 
also adds a new option called 'join-lines' which will replace all newlines in 
the output with a space.

~ray