From b72fcff44da2f1dd6864ee82401e90c389f30bdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Zimoch <dirk.zimoch@psi.ch>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 09:27:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix problem with commands returning multiple trailing
 newlines

---
 src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl b/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl
index c4a0bef20..99598cca1 100644
--- a/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl
+++ b/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ use POSIX qw(strftime);
 
 use strict;
 
+# Make sure that chomp removes all trailing newlines
+$/='';
+
 # RFC 8601 date+time w/ zone (eg "2014-08-29T09:42-0700")
 my $tfmt = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M';
 $tfmt .= '%z' unless $^O eq 'MSWin32'; # %z returns zone name on Windows