Re: [Boost-build] Unexpected line feed when capturing shell output

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Unexpected line feed when capturing shell output
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir.prus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-20 03:04:37

Could you try:

    local GIT_BRANCH = [ SHELL "git rev-parse --abbrev-head HEAD" :
strip-eol ] ;

I'll get this documented.

- Volodya

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 12:57 AM Martin Dyring-Andersen <mda_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> > maybe?
> > echo -n `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
> >
> > It works on cmd line, not sure about within jam file...
>
> I ended up with this, which seems to work as expected.. Thanks for
> pointing me in right direction, I thought it was a bug that linefeed was
> captured.
>
> local GIT_BRANCH = [ SHELL "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | tr -d '\n'"
> ] ;
> echo "before$(GIT_BRANCH)after" ;
>
> BR,
> Martin
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