Re: Executing shell command, save results to variable

> I didn't do it as a back-tick, but as a new built-in
rule, which I call
> Command. It's used inside square brackets.

Diane, idea for Command is excelent! I (and assuming, the
others) will
find it very handy, since it will remove various hacks we
did in the
past. Btw. thank you for the patch.

> I'm currently preparing a minor release of FT-Jam. Just
to tell you
> that I'd love to be able to integrate your [ Command ]
builtin in it.

David, any chance FTJam be synced with the jam 2.5? I'm
using ftjam often,
but some "new tools" in 2.5 (for example GLOB) are
very handy when
someone wants to write quick builds for large projects; not
to say that
would be nice to reuse Autojam library with it 

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Hi Sanel,

> > I'm currently preparing a minor release of FT-Jam.
Just to tell you
> > that I'd love to be able to integrate your [
Command ] builtin in it.
> 
> David, any chance FTJam be synced with the jam 2.5? I'm
using ftjam
> often,
> but some "new tools" in 2.5 (for example
GLOB) are very handy when
> someone wants to write quick builds for large projects;
not to say that
> would be nice to reuse Autojam library with it 
> 

FTJam-2.5.x is *already* synced to Jam-2.5, that's why I'm
using this
naming scheme. In other words, it already supports Glob and
Match
(a.k.a. GLOB and MATCH)

I'm sorry if I haven't updated the web pages in ages, but
you should be
able to use FTJam-2.5 rather easily, I only try to make
additions to the
core Jam sources, not deviate it. Very frankly, there is no
point for a
fork at the moment.

The really different things you get in FT-Jam-2.5.x are the
following:

- easy Unix installation with ./configure && make
&& make install

- easy to use Makefiles for other platforms (e.g. Win32 and
OS/2)

- the infamous HDRMACRO builtin to support "#include
MY_HEADER_H" schemes

- various little fixes in library scanning in Mingw and/or
VisualC++

- the ability to place command-line arguments anywhere, i.e.

  "jam all -dx" is equivalent to "jam -dx
all"

- automatic recognition of command-line variable
assignments, to make
  the "-s" flag optional, i.e. "jam
-sFOO=BAR" is equivalent to "jam FOO=BAR"

- selection of the toolset through the JAM_TOOLSET variable,
really useful
  on Windows to switch quickly between compilers without

This is listed in the CHANGES file in the FT-Jam
distribution with other details

there are also a few undocumented features in the Jambase,
but I won't comment
them at the moment.

Hope this helps,

- David

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