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This will be rolled out to other platforms/tools + in the future. + + - Add check for python >= 3.0.0 and exit gracefully. + For 1.3 python >= 1.5.2 and < 3.0.0 are supported + + - Fix bug 1944 - Handle non-existent .i file in swig emitter, previously + it would crash with an IOError exception. Now it will try to make an + educated guess on the module name based on the filename. + + From Lukas Erlinghagen: + + - Have AddOption() remove variables from the list of + seen-but-unknown variables (which are reported later). + + - An option name and aliases can now be specified as a tuple. + + From Hartmut Goebel: + + - Textfile builder. + + From Jared Grubb: + + - use "is/is not" in comparisons with None instead of "==" or "!=". + + From Jim Hunziker: + + - Avoid adding -gphobos to a command line multiple times + when initializing use of the DMD compiler. + + From Jason Kenney: + + - Sugguested HOST/TARGET OS/ARCH separation. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix the -n option when used with VariantDir(duplicate=1) + and the variant directory doesn't already exist. + + - Fix scanning of Unicode files for both UTF-16 endian flavors. + + - Fix a TypeError on #include of file names with Unicode characters. + + - Fix an exception if a null command-line argument is passed in. + + - Evaluate Requires() prerequisites before a Node's direct children + (sources and dependencies). + + From Greg Noel: + + - Remove redundant __metaclass__ initializations in Environment.py. + + - Correct the documentation of text returned by sconf.Result(). + + - Document that filenames with '.' as the first character are + ignored by Glob() by default (matching UNIX glob semantics). + + - Fix SWIG testing infrastructure to work on Mac OS X. + + - Restructure a test that occasionally hung so that the test would + detect when it was stuck and fail instead. + + - Substfile builder. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - When reporting a target that SCons doesn't know how to make, + specify whether it's a File, Dir, etc. + + From Ben Webb: + + - Fix use of $SWIGOUTDIR when generating Python wrappers. + + - Add $SWIGDIRECTORSUFFIX and $SWIGVERSION construction variables. + + From Rob Managan: + + - Add -recorder flag to Latex commands and updated internals to + use the output to find files TeX creates. This allows the MiKTeX + installations to find the created files + + - Notify user of Latex errors that would get buried in the + Latex output + + - Remove LATEXSUFFIXES from environments that don't initialize Tex. + + - Add support for the glosaaries package for glossaries and acronyms + + - Fix problem that pdftex, latex, and pdflatex tools by themselves did + not create the actions for bibtex, makeindex,... by creating them + and other environment settings in one routine called by all four + tex tools. + + - Fix problem with filenames of sideeffects when the user changes + the name of the output file from the latex default + + - Add scanning of files included in Latex by means of \lstinputlisting{} + Patch from Stefan Hepp. + + - Change command line for epstopdf to use --outfile= instead of -o + since this works on all platforms. + Patch from Stefan Hepp. + +RELEASE 1.2.0.d20090223 - Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:41:06 -0800 + + From Stanislav Baranov: + + - Make suffix-matching for scanners case-insensitive on Windows. + + From David Cournapeau: + + - Change the way SCons finds versions of Visual C/C++ and Visual + Studio to find and use the Microsoft v*vars.bat files. + + From Robert P. J. Day: + + - User's Guide updates. + + From Dan Eaton: + + - Fix generation of Visual Studio 8 project files on x64 platforms. + + From Allan Erskine: + + - Set IncludeSearchPath and PreprocessorDefinitions in generated + Visual Studio 8 project files, to help IntelliSense work. + + From Mateusz Gruca: + + - Fix deletion of broken symlinks by the --clean option. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix the error message when use of a non-existent drive on Windows + is detected. + + - Add sources for files whose targets don't exist in $CHANGED_SOURCES. + + - Detect implicit dependencies on commands even when the command is + quoted. + + - Fix interaction of $CHANGED_SOURCES with the --config=force option. + + - Fix finding #include files when the string contains escaped + backslashes like "C:\\some\\include.h". + + - Pass $CCFLAGS to Visual C/C++ precompiled header compilation. + + - Remove unnecessary nested $( $) around $_LIBDIRFLAGS on link lines + for the Microsoft linker, the OS/2 ilink linker and the Phar Lap + linkloc linker. + + - Spell the Windows environment variables consistently "SystemDrive" + and "SystemRoot" instead of "SYSTEMDRIVE" and "SYSTEMROOT". + + + +RELEASE 1.2.0.d20090113 - Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:50:30 -0800 + + From Stanislav Baranov, Ted Johnson and Steven Knight: + + - Add support for batch compilation of Visual Studio C/C++ source + files, controlled by a new $MSVC_BATCH construction variable. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Print the message, "scons: Build interrupted." on error output, + not standard output. + + - Add a --warn=future-deprecated option for advance warnings about + deprecated features that still have warnings hidden by default. + + - Fix use of $SOURCE and $SOURCES attributes when there are no + sources specified in the Builder call. + + - Add support for new $CHANGED_SOURCES, $CHANGED_TARGETS, + $UNCHANGED_SOURCES and $UNCHANGED_TARGETS variables. + + - Add general support for batch builds through new batch_key= and + targets= keywords to Action object creation. + + From Arve Knudsen: + + - Make linker tools differentiate properly between SharedLibrary + and LoadableModule. + + - Document TestCommon.shobj_prefix variable. + + - Support $SWIGOUTDIR values with spaces. + + From Rob Managan: + + - Don't automatically try to build .pdf graphics files for + .eps files in \includegraphics{} calls in TeX/LaTeX files + when building with the PDF builder (and thus using pdflatex). + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Allow AppendENVPath() and PrependENVPath() to interpret '#' + for paths relative to the top-level SConstruct directory. + + - Use the Borland ilink -e option to specify the output file name. + + - Document that the msvc Tool module uses $PCH, $PCHSTOP and $PDB. + + - Allow WINDOWS_INSERT_DEF=0 to disable --output-def when linking + under MinGW. + + From Zia Sobhani: + + - Fix typos in the User's Guide. + + From Greg Spencer: + + - Support implicit dependency scanning of files encoded in utf-8 + and utf-16. + + From Roberto de Vecchi: + + - Remove $CCFLAGS from the the default definitions of $CXXFLAGS for + Visual C/C++ and MIPSpro C++ on SGI so, they match other tools + and avoid flag duplication on C++ command lines. + + From Ben Webb: + + - Handle quoted module names in SWIG source files. + + - Emit *_wrap.h when SWIG generates header file for directors + + From Matthew Wesley: + + - Copy file attributes so we identify, and can link a shared library + from, shared object files in a Repository. + + + +RELEASE 1.2.0 - Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:47:29 -0800 + + From Steven Knight: + + - Don't fail if can't import a _subprocess module on Windows. + + - Add warnings for use of the deprecated Options object. + + + +RELEASE 1.1.0.d20081207 - Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:17:23 -0800 + + From Benoit Belley: + + - Improve the robustness of GetBuildFailures() by refactoring + SCons exception handling (especially BuildError exceptions). + + - Have the --taskmastertrace= option print information about + individual Task methods, not just the Taskmaster control flow. + + - Eliminate some spurious dependency cycles by being more aggressive + about pruning pending children from the Taskmaster walk. + + - Suppress mistaken reports of a dependency cycle when a child + left on the pending list is a single Node in EXECUTED state. + + From David Cournapeau: + + - Fix $FORTRANMODDIRPREFIX for the ifort (Intel Fortran) tool. + + From Brad Fitzpatrick: + + - Don't pre-generate an exception message (which will likely be + ignored anyway) when an EntryProxy re-raises an AttributeError. + + From Jared Grubb: + + - Clean up coding style and white space in Node/FS.py. + + - Fix a typo in the documentation for $_CPPDEFFLAGS. + + - Issue 2401: Fix usage of comparisons with None. + + From Ludwig Hähne: + + - Handle Java inner classes declared within a method. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix label placement by the "scons-time.py func" subcommand + when a profile value was close to (or equal to) 0.0. + + - Fix env.Append() and env.Prepend()'s ability to add a string to + list-like variables like $CCFLAGS under Python 2.6. + + - Other Python2.6 portability: don't use "as" (a Python 2.6 keyword). + Don't use the deprecated Exception.message attribute. + + - Support using the -f option to search for a different top-level + file name when walking up with the -D, -U or -u options. + + - Fix use of VariantDir when the -n option is used and doesn't, + therefore, actually create the variant directory. + + - Fix a stack trace from the --debug=includes option when passed a + static or shared library as an argument. + + - Speed up the internal find_file() function (used for searching + CPPPATH, LIBPATH, etc.). + + - Add support for using the Python "in" keyword on construction + environments (for example, if "CPPPATH" in env: ...). + + - Fix use of Glob() when a repository or source directory contains + an in-memory Node without a corresponding on-disk file or directory. + + - Add a warning about future reservation of $CHANGED_SOURCES, + $CHANGED_TARGETS, $UNCHANGED_SOURCES and $UNCHANGED_TARGETS. + + - Enable by default the existing warnings about setting the resource + $SOURCE, $SOURCES, $TARGET and $TARGETS variable. + + From Rob Managan: + + - Scan for TeX files in the paths specified in the $TEXINPUTS + construction variable and the $TEXINPUTS environment variable. + + - Configure the PDF() and PostScript() Builders as single_source so + they know each source file generates a separate target file. + + - Add $EPSTOPDF, $EPSTOPDFFLAGS and $EPSTOPDFCOM + + - Add .tex as a valid extension for the PDF() builder. + + - Add regular expressions to find \input, \include and + \includegraphics. + + - Support generating a .pdf file from a .eps source. + + - Recursive scan included input TeX files. + + - Handle requiring searched-for TeX input graphics files to have + extensions (to avoid trying to build a .eps from itself, e.g.). + + From Greg Noel: + + - Make the Action() function handle positional parameters consistently. + + - Clarify use of Configure.CheckType(). + + - Make the File.{Dir,Entry,File}() methods create their entries + relative to the calling File's directory, not the SConscript + directory. + + - Use the Python os.devnull variable to discard error output when + looking for the $CC or $CXX version. + + - Mention LoadableModule() in the SharedLibrary() documentation. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Update the User's Guide to clarify use of the site_scons/ + directory and the site_init.py module. + + - Make env.AppendUnique() and env.PrependUnique remove duplicates + within a passed-in list being added, too. + + From Randall Spangler: + + - Fix Glob() so an on-disk file or directory beginning with '#' + doesn't throw an exception. + + + +RELEASE 1.1.0 - Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:33:47 -0700 + + From Chris AtLee + + - Use the specified environment when checking for the GCC compiler + version. + + From Ian P. Cardenas: + + - Fix Glob() polluting LIBPATH by returning copy of list + + From David Cournapeau: + + - Add CheckCC, CheckCXX, CheckSHCC and CheckSHCXX tests to + configuration contexts. + + - Have the --profile= argument use the much faster cProfile module + (if it's available in the running Python version). + + - Reorder MSVC compilation arguments so the /Fo is first. + + From Bill Deegan: + + - Add scanning Windows resource (.rc) files for implicit dependencies. + + From John Gozde: + + - When scanning for a #include file, don't use a directory that + has the same name as the file. + + From Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve + + - Suppress error output when checking for the GCC compiler version. + + From Jared Grubb: + + - Fix VariantDir duplication of #included files in subdirectories. + + From Ludwig Hähne: + + - Reduce memory usage when a directory is used as a dependency of + another Node (such as an Alias) by returning a concatenation + of the children's signatures + names, not the children's contents, + as the directory contents. + + - Raise AttributeError, not KeyError, when a Builder can't be found. + + - Invalidate cached Node information (such as the contenst returned + by the get_contents() method) when calling actions with Execute(). + + - Avoid object reference cycles from frame objects. + + - Reduce memory usage from Null Executor objects. + + - Compute MD5 checksums of large files without reading the entire + file contents into memory. Add a new --md5-chunksize option to + control the size of each chunk read into memory. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix the ability of the add_src_builder() method to add a new + source builder to any other builder. + + - Avoid an infinite loop on non-Windows systems trying to find the + SCons library directory if the Python library directory does not + begin with the string "python". + + - Search for the SCons library directory in "scons-local" (with + no version number) after "scons-local-{VERSION}". + + From Rob Managan: + + - Fix the user's ability to interrupt the TeX build chain. + + - Fix the TeX builder's allowing the user to specify the target name, + instead of always using its default output name based on the source. + + - Iterate building TeX output files until all warning are gone + and the auxiliary files stop changing, or until we reach the + (configurable) maximum number of retries. + + - Add TeX scanner support for: glossaries, nomenclatures, lists of + figures, lists of tables, hyperref and beamer. + + - Use the $BIBINPUTS, $BSTINPUTS, $TEXINPUTS and $TEXPICTS construction + variables as search paths for the relevant types of input file. + + - Fix building TeX with VariantDir(duplicate=0) in effect. + + - Fix the LaTeX scanner to search for graphics on the TEXINPUTS path. + + - Have the PDFLaTeX scanner search for .gif files as well. + + From Greg Noel: + + - Fix typos and format bugs in the man page. + + - Add a first draft of a wrapper module for Python's subprocess + module. + + - Refactor use of the SCons.compat module so other modules don't + have to import it individually. + + - Add .sx as a suffix for assembly language files that use the + C preprocessor. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Make Glob() sort the returned list of Files or Nodes + to prevent spurious rebuilds. + + - Add a delete_existing keyword argument to the AppendENVPath() + and PrependENVPath() Environment methods. + + - Add ability to use "$SOURCE" when specifying a target to a builder + + From Damyan Pepper: + + - Add a test case to verify that SConsignFile() files can be + created in previously non-existent subdirectories. + + From Jim Randall: + + - Make the subdirectory in which the SConsignFile() file will + live, if the subdirectory doesn't already exist. + + From Ali Tofigh: + + - Add a test to verify duplication of files in VariantDir subdirectories. + + + +RELEASE 1.0.1 - Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:29:34 -0700 + + From Greg Noel: + + - Add a FindFile() section to the User's Guide. + + - Fix the FindFile() documentation in the man page. + + - Fix formatting errors in the Package() description in the man page. + + - Escape parentheses that appear within variable names when spawning + command lines using os.system(). + + + +RELEASE 1.0.0.d20080826 - Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:12:40 -0700 + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Make Glob() sort the returned list of Files or Nodes + to prevent spurious rebuilds. + + From Ian P. Cardenas: + + - Fix Glob() polluting LIBPATH by returning copy of list + + + +RELEASE 1.0.0 - XXX + + From Jared Grubb: + + - Clear the Node state when turning a generic Entry into a Dir. + + From Ludwig Hähne: + + - Fix sporadic output-order failures in test/GetBuildFailures/parallel.py. + + - Document the ParseDepends() function in the User's Guide. + + From khomenko: + + - Create a separate description and long_description for RPM packages. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Document the GetLaunchDir() function in the User's Guide. + + - Have the env.Execute() method print an error message if the + executed command fails. + + - Add a script for creating a standard SCons development system on + Ubuntu Hardy. Rewrite subsidiary scripts for install Python and + SCons versions in Python (from shell). + + From Greg Noel: + + - Handle yacc/bison on newer Mac OS X versions creating file.hpp, + not file.cpp.h. + + - In RPCGEN tests, ignore stderr messages from older versions of + rpcgen on some versions of Mac OS X. + + - Fix typos in man page descriptions of Tag() and Package(), and in + the scons-time man page. + + - Fix documentation of SConf.CheckLibWithHeader and other SConf methods. + + - Update documentation of SConscript(variant_dir) usage. + + - Fix SWIG tests for (some versions of) Mac OS X. + + From Jonas Olsson: + + - Print the warning about -j on Windows being potentially unreliable if + the pywin32 extensions are unavailable or lack file handle operations. + + From Jim Randall: + + - Fix the env.WhereIs() method to expand construction variables. + + From Rogier Schouten: + + - Enable building of shared libraries with the Bordand ilink32 linker. + + + +RELEASE 1.0.0 - Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:19:44 -0700 + + From Luca Falavigna: + + - Fix SCons man page indentation under Debian's man page macros. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Clarify the man page description of the SConscript(src_dir) argument. + + - User's Guide updates: + + - Document the BUILD_TARGETS, COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS and + DEFAULT_TARGETS variables. + + - Document the AddOption(), GetOption() and SetOption() functions. + + - Document the Requires() function; convert to the Variables + object, its UnknownOptions() method, and its associated + BoolVariable(), EnumVariable(), ListVariable(), PackageVariable() + and PathVariable() functions. + + - Document the Progress() function. + + - Reorganize the chapter and sections describing the different + types of environments and how they interact. Document the + SetDefault() method. Document the PrependENVPath() and + AppendENVPath() functions. + + - Reorganize the command-line arguments chapter. Document the + ARGLIST variable. + + - Collect some miscellaneous sections into a chapter about + configuring build output. + + - Man page updates: + + - Document suggested use of the Visual C/C++ /FC option to fix + the ability to double-click on file names in compilation error + messages. + + - Document the need to use Clean() for any SideEffect() files that + must be explicitly removed when their targets are removed. + + - Explicitly document use of Node lists as input to Dependency(). + + From Greg Noel: + + - Document MergeFlags(), ParseConfig(), ParseFlags() and SideEffect() + in the User's Guide. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Document use of the GetBuildFailures() function in the User's Guide. + + From Adam Simpkins: + + - Add man page text clarifying the behavior of AddPreAction() and + AddPostAction() when called with multiple targets. + + From Alexey Zezukin: + + - Fix incorrectly swapped man page descriptions of the --warn= options + for duplicate-environment and missing-sconscript. + + + +RELEASE 0.98.5 - Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:20:35 -0700 + + From Benoit Belley: + + - Fix the Intel C++ compiler ABI specification for EMT64 processors. + + From David Cournapeau: + + - Issue a (suppressable) warning, not an error, when trying to link + C++ and Fortran object files into the same executable. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Update the scons.bat file so that it returns the real exit status + from SCons, even though it uses setlocal + endlocal. + + - Fix the --interactive post-build messages so it doesn't get stuck + mistakenly reporting failures after any individual build fails. + + - Fix calling File() as a File object method in some circumstances. + + - Fix setup.py installation on Mac OS X so SCons gets installed + under /usr/lcoal by default, not in the Mac OS X Python framework. + + + +RELEASE 0.98.4 - Sat, 17 May 2008 22:14:46 -0700 + + From Benoit Belley: + + - Fix calculation of signatures for Python function actions with + closures in Python versions before 2.5. + + From David Cournapeau: + + - Fix the initialization of $SHF77FLAGS so it includes $F77FLAGS. + + From Jonas Olsson: + + - Fix a syntax error in the Intel C compiler support on Windows. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Change how we represent Python Value Nodes when printing and when + stored in .sconsign files (to avoid blowing out memory by storing + huge strings in .sconsign files after multiple runs using Configure + contexts cause the Value strings to be re-escaped each time). + + - Fix a regression in not executing configuration checks after failure + of any configuration check that used the same compiler or other tool. + + - Handle multiple destinations in Visual Studio 8 settings for the + analogues to the INCLUDE, LIBRARY and PATH variables. + + From Greg Noel: + + - Update man page text for VariantDir(). + + + +RELEASE 0.98.3 - Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:40:12 -0700 + + From Greg Noel: + + - Fix use of $CXXFLAGS when building C++ shared object files. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix a regression when a Builder's source_scanner doesn't select + a more specific scanner for the suffix of a specified source file. + + - Fix the Options object backwards compatibility so people can still + "import SCons.Options.{Bool,Enum,List,Package,Path}Option" submodules. + + - Fix searching for implicit dependencies when an Entry Node shows up + in the search path list. + + From Stefano: + + - Fix expansion of $FORTRANMODDIR in the default Fortran command line(s) + when it's set to something like ${TARGET.dir}. + + + +RELEASE 0.98.2 - Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:38:56 -0700 + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix a bug in Fortran suffix computation that would cause SCons to + run out of memory on Windows systems. + + - Fix being able to specify --interactive mode command lines with + \ (backslash) path name separators on Windows. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Document Glob() in the User's Guide. + + + +RELEASE 0.98.1 - Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:11:58 -0700 + + From Benoit Belley: + + - Speed up the SCons.Util.to_string*() functions. + + - Optimize various Node intialization and calculations. + + - Optimize Executor scanning code. + + - Optimize Taskmaster execution, including dependency-cycle checking. + + - Fix the --debug=stree option so it prints its tree once, not twice. + + From Johan BoulÃ: + + - Fix the ability to use LoadableModule() under MinGW. + + From David Cournapeau: + + - Various missing Fortran-related construction variables have been added. + + - SCons now uses the program specified in the $FORTRAN construction + variable to link Fortran object files. + + - Fortran compilers on Linux (Intel, g77 and gfortran) now add the -fPIC + option by default when compilling shared objects. + + - New 'sunf77', 'sunf90' and 'sunf95' Tool modules have been added to + support Sun Fortran compilers. On Solaris, the Sun Fortran compilers + are used in preference to other compilers by default. + + - Fortran support now uses gfortran in preference to g77. + + - Fortran file suffixes are now configurable through the + $F77FILESUFFIXES, $F90FILESUFFIXES, $F95FILESUFFIXES and + $FORTRANFILESUFFIXES variables. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Make the -d, -e, -w and --no-print-directory options "Ignored for + compatibility." (We're not going to implement them.) + + - Fix a serious inefficiency in how SCons checks for whether any source + files are missing when a Builder call creates many targets from many + input source files. + + - In Java projects, make the target .class files depend only on the + specific source .java files where the individual classes are defined. + + - Don't store duplicate source file entries in the .sconsign file so + we don't endlessly rebuild the target(s) for no reason. + + - Add a Variables object as the first step towards deprecating the + Options object name. Similarly, add BoolVariable(), EnumVariable(), + ListVariable(), PackageVariable() and PathVariable() functions + as first steps towards replacing BoolOption(), EnumOption(), + ListOption(), PackageOption() and PathOption(). + + - Change the options= keyword argument to the Environment() function + to variables=, to avoid confusion with SCons command-line options. + Continue supporting the options= keyword for backwards compatibility. + + - When $SWIGFLAGS contains the -python flag, expect the generated .py + file to be in the same (sub)directory as the target. + + - When compiling C++ files, allow $CCFLAGS settings to show up on the + command line even when $CXXFLAGS has been redefined. + + - Fix --interactive with -u/-U/-D when a VariantDir() is used. + + From Anatoly Techtonik: + + - Have the scons.bat file add the script execution directory to its + local %PATH% on Windows, so the Python executable can be found. + + From Mike Wake: + + - Fix passing variable names as a list to the Return() function. + + From Matthew Wesley: + + - Add support for the GDC 'D' language compiler. + + + +RELEASE 0.98 - Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:33:05 -0700 + + From Benoit Belley: + + - Fix the --keep-going flag so it builds all possible targets even when + a later top-level target depends on a child that failed its build. + + - Fix being able to use $PDB and $WINDWOWS_INSERT_MANIFEST together. + + - Don't crash if un-installing the Intel C compiler leaves left-over, + dangling entries in the Windows registry. + + - Improve support for non-standard library prefixes and suffixes by + stripping all prefixes/suffixes from file name string as appropriate. + + - Reduce the default stack size for -j worker threads to 256 Kbytes. + Provide user control over this value by adding --stack-size and + --warn=stack-size options, and a SetOption('stack_size') function. + + - Fix a crash on Linux systems when trying to use the Intel C compiler + and no /opt/intel_cc_* directories are found. + + - Improve using Python functions as actions by incorporating into + a FunctionAction's signature: + - literal values referenced by the byte code. + - values of default arguments + - code of nested functions + - values of variables captured by closures + - names of referenced global variables and functions + + - Fix the closing message when --clean and --keep-going are both + used and no errors occur. + + - Add support for the Intel C compiler on Mac OS X. + + - Speed up reading SConscript files by about 20% (for some + configurations) by: 1) optimizing the SCons.Util.is_*() and + SCons.Util.flatten() functions; 2) avoiding unnecessary os.stat() + calls by using a File's .suffix attribute directly instead of + stringifying it. + + From Jérôme Berger: + + - Have the D language scanner search for .di files as well as .d files. + + - Add a find_include_names() method to the Scanner.Classic class to + abstract out how included names can be generated by subclasses. + + - Allow the D language scanner to detect multiple modules imported by + a single statement. + + From Konstantin Bozhikov: + + - Support expansion of construction variables that contain or refer + to lists of other variables or Nodes within expansions like $CPPPATH. + + - Change variable substitution (the env.subst() method) so that an + input sequence (list or tuple) is preserved as a list in the output. + + From David Cournapeau: + + - Add a CheckDeclaration() call to configure contexts. + + - Improve the CheckTypeSize() code. + + - Add a Define() call to configure contexts, to add arbitrary #define + lines to a generated configure header file. + + - Add a "gfortran" Tool module for the GNU F95/F2003 compiler. + + - Avoid use of -rpath with the Mac OS X linker. + + - Add comment lines to the generated config.h file to describe what + the various #define/#undef lines are doing. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Support the ability to subclass the new-style "str" class as input + to Builders. + + - Improve the performance of our type-checking by using isinstance() + with new-style classes. + + - Fix #include (and other $*PATH variables searches) of files with + absolute path names. Don't die if they don't exist (due to being + #ifdef'ed out or the like). + + - Fix --interactive mode when Default(None) is used. + + - Fix --debug=memoizer to work around a bug in base Python 2.2 metaclass + initialization (by just not allowing Memoization in Python versions + that have the bug). + + - Have the "scons-time time" subcommand handle empty log files, and + log files that contain no results specified by the --which option. + + - Fix the max Y of vertical bars drawn by "scons-time --fmt=gnuplot". + + - On Mac OS X, account for the fact that the header file generated + from a C++ file will be named (e.g.) file.cpp.h, not file.hpp. + + - Fix floating-point numbers confusing the Java parser about + generated .class file names in some configurations. + + - Document (nearly) all the values you can now fetch with GetOption(). + + - Fix use of file names containing strings of multiple spaces when + using ActionFactory instances like the Copy() or Move() function. + + - Fix a 0.97 regression when using a variable expansion (like + $OBJSUFFIX) in a source file name to a builder with attached source + builders that match suffix (like Program()+Object()). + + - Have the Java parser recognize generics (surrounded by angle brackets) + so they don't interfere with identifying anonymous inner classes. + + - Avoid an infinite loop when trying to use saved copies of the + env.Install() or env.InstallAs() after replacing the method + attributes. + + - Improve the performance of setting construction variables. + + - When cloning a construction environment, avoid over-writing an + attribute for an added method if the user explicitly replaced it. + + - Add a warning about deprecated support for Python 1.5, 2.0 and 2.1. + + - Fix being able to SetOption('warn', ...) in SConscript files. + + - Add a warning about env.Copy() being deprecated. + + - Add warnings about the --debug={dtree,stree,tree} options + being deprecated. + + - Add VariantDir() as the first step towards deprecating BuildDir(). + Add the keyword argument "variant_dir" as the replacement for + "build_dir". + + - Add warnings about the {Target,Source}Signatures() methods and + functions being deprecated. + + From Rob Managan: + + - Enhance TeX and LaTeX support to work with BuildDir(duplicate=0). + + - Re-run LaTeX when it issues a package warning that it must be re-run. + + From Leanid Nazdrynau: + + - Have the Copy() action factory preserve file modes and times + when copying individual files. + + From Jan Nijtmans: + + - If $JARCHDIR isn't set explicitly, use the .java_classdir attribute + that was set when the Java() Builder built the .class files. + + From Greg Noel: + + - Document the Dir(), File() and Entry() methods of Dir and File Nodes. + + - Add the parse_flags option when creating Environments + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Make File(), Dir() and Entry() return a list of Nodes when passed + a list of names, instead of trying to make a string from the name + list and making a Node from that string. + + - Fix the ability to build an Alias in --interactive mode. + + - Fix the ability to hash the contents of actions for nested Python + functions on Python versions where the inability to pickle them + returns a TypeError (instead of the documented PicklingError). + + From Jonas Olsson: + + - Fix use of the Intel C compiler when the top compiler directory, + but not the compiler version, is specified. + + - Handle Intel C compiler network license files (port@system). + + From Jim Randall: + + - Fix how Python Value Nodes are printed in --debug=explain output. + + From Adam Simpkins: + + - Add a --interactive option that starts a session for building (or + cleaning) targets without re-reading the SConscript files every time. + + - Fix use of readline command-line editing in --interactive mode. + + - Have the --interactive mode "build" command with no arguments + build the specified Default() targets. + + - Fix the Chmod(), Delete(), Mkdir() and Touch() Action factories to + take a list (of Nodes or strings) as arguments. + + From Vaclav Smilauer: + + - Fix saving and restoring an Options value of 'all' on Python + versions where all() is a builtin function. + + From Daniel Svensson: + + - Code correction in SCons.Util.is_List(). + + From Ben Webb: + + - Support the SWIG %module statement with following modifiers in + parenthese (e.g., '%module(directors="1")'). + + + +RELEASE 0.97.0d20071212 - Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:29:32 -0600 + + From Benoit Belley: + + - Fix occasional spurious rebuilds and inefficiency when using + --implicit-cache and Builders that produce multiple targets. + + - Allow SCons to not have to know about the builders of generated + files when BuildDir(duplicate=0) is used, potentially allowing some + SConscript files to be ignored for smaller builds. + + From David Cournapeau: + + - Add a CheckTypeSize() call to configure contexts. + + From Ken Deeter: + + - Make the "contents" of Alias Nodes a concatenation of the children's + content signatures (MD5 checksums), not a concatenation of the + children's contents, to avoid using large amounts of memory during + signature calculation. + + From Malte Helmert: + + - Fix a lot of typos in the man page and User's Guide. + + From Geoffrey Irving: + + - Speed up conversion of paths in .sconsign files to File or Dir Nodes. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Add an Options.UnknownOptions() method that returns any settings + (from the command line, or whatever dictionary was passed in) + that aren't known to the Options object. + + - Add a Glob() function. + + - When removing targets with the -c option, use the absolute path (to + avoid problems interpreting BuildDir() when the top-level directory + is the source directory). + + - Fix problems with Install() and InstallAs() when called through a + clone (of a clone, ...) of a cloned construction environment. + + - When executing a file containing Options() settings, add the file's + directory to sys.path (so modules can be imported from there) and + explicity set __name__ to the name of the file so the statement's + in the file can deduce the location if they need to. + + - Fix an O(n^2) performance problem when adding sources to a target + through calls to a multi Builder (including Aliases). + + - Redefine the $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTSUFFIX and + $WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTSUFFIX variables so they pick up changes to + the underlying $SHLIBSUFFIX and $PROGSUFFIX variables. + + - Add a GetBuildFailures() function that can be called from functions + registered with the Python atexit module to print summary information + about any failures encountered while building. + + - Return a NodeList object, not a Python list, when a single_source + Builder like Object() is called with more than one file. + + - When searching for implicit dependency files in the directories + in a $*PATH list, don't create Dir Nodes for directories that + don't actually exist on-disk. + + - Add a Requires() function to allow the specification of order-only + prerequisites, which will be updated before specified "downstream" + targets but which don't actually cause the target to be rebuilt. + + - Restore the FS.{Dir,File,Entry}.rel_path() method. + + - Make the default behavior of {Source,Target}Signatures('timestamp') + be equivalent to 'timestamp-match', not 'timestamp-newer'. + + - Fix use of CacheDir with Decider('timestamp-newer') by updating + the modification time when copying files from the cache. + + - Fix random issues with parallel (-j) builds on Windows when Python + holds open file handles (especially for SCons temporary files, + or targets built by Python function actions) across process creation. + + From Maxim Kartashev: + + - Fix test scripts when run on Solaris. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Fix Glob() when a pattern is in an explicitly-named subdirectory. + + From Philipp Scholl: + + - Fix setting up targets if multiple Package builders are specified + at once. + + + +RELEASE 0.97.0d20070918 - Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:51:27 -0500 + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix the wix Tool module to handle null entries in $PATH variables. + + - Move the documentation of Install() and InstallAs() from the list + of functions to the list of Builders (now that they're implemented + as such). + + - Allow env.CacheDir() to be set per construction environment. The + global CacheDir() function now sets an overridable global default. + + - Add an env.Decider() method and a Node.Decider() method that allow + flexible specification of an arbitrary function to decide if a given + dependency has changed since the last time a target was built. + + - Don't execute Configure actions (while reading SConscript files) + when cleaning (-c) or getting help (-h or -H). + + - Add to each target an implicit dependency on the external command(s) + used to build the target, as found by searching env['ENV']['PATH'] + for the first argument on each executed command line. + + - Add support for a $IMPLICIT_COMMAND_DEPENDENCIES construction + variabe that can be used to disable the automatic implicit + dependency on executed commands. + + - Add an "ensure_suffix" keyword to Builder() definitions that, when + true, will add the configured suffix to the targets even if it looks + like they already have a different suffix. + + - Add a Progress() function that allows for calling a function or string + (or list of strings) to display progress while walking the DAG. + + - Allow ParseConfig(), MergeFlags() and ParseFlags() to handle output + from a *config command with quoted path names that contain spaces. + + - Make the Return() function stop processing the SConscript file and + return immediately. Add a "stop=" keyword argument that can be set + to False to preserve the old behavior. + + - Fix use of exitstatfunc on an Action. + + - Introduce all man page function examples with "Example:" or "Examples:". + + - When a file gets added to a directory, make sure the directory gets + re-scanned for the new implicit dependency. + + - Fix handling a file that's specified multiple times in a target + list so that it doesn't cause dependent Nodes to "disappear" from + the dependency graph walk. + + From Carsten Koch: + + - Avoid race conditions with same-named files and directory creation + when pushing copies of files to CacheDir(). + + From Tzvetan Mikov: + + - Handle $ in Java class names. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Add support for the Intel C compiler on Windows64. + + - On SGI IRIX, have $SHCXX use $CXX by default (like other platforms). + + From Sohail Somani: + + - When Cloning a construction environment, set any variables before + applying tools (so the tool module can access the configured settings) + and re-set them after (so they end up matching what the user set). + + From Matthias Troffaes: + + - Make sure extra auxiliary files generated by some LaTeX packages + and not ending in .aux also get deleted by scons -c. + + From Greg Ward: + + - Add a $JAVABOOTCLASSPATH variable for directories to be passed to the + javac -bootclasspath option. + + From Christoph Wiedemann: + + - Add implicit dependencies on the commands used to build a target. + + + + +RELEASE 0.97.0d20070809 - Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:51:27 -0500 + + From Lars Albertsson: + + - Don't error if a #include line happens to match a directory + somewhere on a path (like $CPPPATH, $FORTRANPATH, etc.). + + From Mark Bertoglio: + + - Fix listing multiple projects in Visual Studio 7.[01] solution files, + including generating individual project GUIDs instead of re-using + the solution GUID. + + From Jean Brouwers: + + - Add /opt/SUNWspro/bin to the default execution PATH on Solaris. + + From Allan Erskine: + + - Only expect the Microsoft IDL compiler to emit *_p.c and *_data.c + files if the /proxy and /dlldata switches are used (respectively). + + From Steven Knight: + + - Have --debug=explain report if a target is being rebuilt because + AlwaysBuild() is specified (instead of "unknown reasons"). + + - Support {Get,Set}Option('help') to make it easier for SConscript + files to tell if a help option (-h, --help, etc.) has been specified. + + - Support {Get,Set}Option('random') so random-dependency interaction + with CacheDir() is controllable from SConscript files. + + - Add a new AddOption() function to support user-defined command- + line flags (like --prefix=, --force, etc.). + + - Push and retrieve built symlinks to/from a CacheDir() as actual + symlinks, not by copying the file contents. + + - Fix how the Action module handles stringifying the shared library + generator in the Tool/mingw.py module. + + - When generating a config.h file, print "#define HAVE_{FEATURE} 1" + instad of just "#define HAVE_{FEATURE}", for more compatibility + with Autoconf-style projects. + + - Fix expansion of $TARGET, $TARGETS, $SOURCE and $SOURCES keywords in + Visual C/C++ PDB file names. + + - Fix locating Visual C/C++ PDB files in build directories. + + - Support an env.AddMethod() method and an AddMethod() global function + for adding a new method, respectively, to a construction environment + or an arbitrary object (such as a class). + + - Fix the --debug=time option when the -j option is specified and all + files are up to date. + + - Add a $SWIGOUTDIR variable to allow setting the swig -outdir option, + and use it to identify files created by the swig -java option. + + - Add a $SWIGPATH variable that specifies the path to be searched + for included SWIG files, Also add related $SWIGINCPREFIX and + $SWIGINCSUFFIX variables that specify the prefix and suffix to + be be added to each $SWIGPATH directory when expanded on the SWIG + command line. + + - More efficient copying of construction environments (mostly borrowed + from copy.deepcopy() in the standard Python library). + + - When printing --tree=prune output, don't print [brackets] around + source files, only do so for built targets with children. + + - Fix interpretation of Builder source arguments when the Builder has + a src_suffix *and* a source_builder and the argument has no suffix. + + - Fix use of expansions like ${TARGET.dir} or ${SOURCE.dir} in the + following construction variables: $FORTRANMODDIR, $JARCHDIR, + $JARFLAGS, $LEXFLAGS, $SWIGFLAGS, $SWIGOUTDIR and $YACCFLAGS. + + - Fix dependencies on Java files generated by SWIG so they can be + detected and built in one pass. + + - Fix SWIG when used with a BuildDir(). + + From Leanid Nazdrynau: + + - When applying Tool modules after a construction environment has + already been created, don't overwrite existing $CFILESUFFIX and + $CXXFILESUFFIX value. + + - Support passing the Java() builder a list of explicit .java files + (not only a list of directories to be scanned for .java files). + + - Support passing .java files to the Jar() and JavaH() builders, which + then use the builder underlying the Java() builder to turn them into + .class files. (That is, the Jar()-Java() chain of builders become + multi-step, like the Program()-Object()-CFile() builders.) + + - Support passing SWIG .i files to the Java builders (Java(), + Jar(), JavaH()), to cause intermediate .java files to be created + automatically. + + - Add $JAVACLASSPATH and $JAVASOURCEPATH variables, that get added to + the javac "-classpath" and "-sourcepath" options. (Note that SCons + does *not* currently search these paths for implicit dependencies.) + + - Commonize initialization of Java-related builders. + + From Jan Nijtmans: + + - Find Java anonymous classes when the next token after the name is + an open parenthesis. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Fix a code example in the man page. + + From Tilo Prutz: + + - Add support for the file names that Java 1.5 (and 1.6) generates for + nested anonymous inner classes, which are different from Java 1.4. + + From Adam Simpkins: + + - Allow worker threads to terminate gracefully when all jobs are + finished. + + From Sohail Somani: + + - Add LaTeX scanner support for finding dependencies specified with + the \usepackage{} directive. + + + +RELEASE 0.97 - Thu, 17 May 2007 08:59:41 -0500 + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix a bug that would make parallel builds stop in their tracks if + Nodes that depended on lists that contained some Nodes built together + caused the reference count to drop below 0 if the Nodes were visited + and commands finished in the wrong order. + + - Make sure the DirEntryScanner doesn't choke if it's handed something + that's not a directory (Node.FS.Dir) Node. + + + +RELEASE 0.96.96 - Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:36:25 -0500 + + NOTE: This is (Yet) a(nother) pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes. + + From Joe Bloggs: + + - Man page fix: remove cut-and-paste sentence in NoCache() description. + + From Dmitry Grigorenko and Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Use the Intel C++ compiler, not $CC, to link C++ source. + + From Helmut Grohne: + + - Fix the man page example of propagating a user's external environment. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Back out (most of) the Windows registry installer patch, which + seems to not work on some versions of Windows. + + - Don't treat Java ".class" attributes as defining an inner class. + + - Fix detecting an erroneous Java anonymous class when the first + non-skipped token after a "new" keyword is a closing brace. + + - Fix a regression when a CPPDEFINES list contains a tuple, the second + item of which (the option value) is a construction variable expansion + (e.g. $VALUE) and the value of the variable isn't a string. + + - Improve the error message if an IOError (like trying to read a + directory as a file) occurs while deciding if a node is up-to-date. + + - Fix "maximum recursion" / "unhashable type" errors in $CPPPATH + PathList expansion if a subsidiary expansion yields a stringable, + non-Node object. + + - Generate API documentation from the docstrings (using epydoc). + + - Fix use of --debug=presub with Actions for out-of-the-box Builders. + + - Fix handling nested lists within $CPPPATH, $LIBPATH, etc. + + - Fix a "builders_used" AttributeError that real-world Qt initialization + triggered in the refactored suffix handling for Builders. + + - Make the reported --debug=time timings meaningful when used with -j. + Better documentation of what the times mean. + + - User Guide updates: --random, AlwaysBuild(), --tree=, + --debug=findlibs, --debug=presub, --debug=stacktrace, + --taskmastertrace. + + - Document (in both man page and User's Guide) that --implicit-cache + ignores changes in $CPPPATH, $LIBPATH, etc. + + From Jean-Baptiste Lab: + + - Remove hard-coded dependency on Python 2.2 from Debian packaging files. + + From Jeff Mahovsky: + + - Handle spaces in the build target name in Visual Studio project files. + + From Rob Managan: + + - Re-run LaTeX after BibTeX has been re-run in response to a changed + .bib file. + + From Joel B. Mohler: + + - Make additional TeX auxiliary files (.toc, .idx and .bbl files) + Precious so their removal doesn't affect whether the necessary + sections are included in output PDF or PostScript files. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Fix the ability to import modules in the site_scons directory from + a subdirectory. + + From Adam Simpkins: + + - Make sure parallel (-j) builds all targets even if they show up + multiple times in the child list (as a source and a dependency). + + From Matthias Troffaes: + + - Don't re-run TeX if the triggering strings (\makeindex, \bibliography + \tableofcontents) are commented out. + + From Richard Viney: + + - Fix use of custom include and lib paths with Visual Studio 8. + + - Select the default .NET Framework SDK Dir based on the version of + Visual Studio being used. + + + +RELEASE 0.96.95 - Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:25:16 -0600 + + From Anatoly: + + - Add the scons.org URL and a package description to the setup.py + arguments. + + - Have the Windows installer add a registry entry for scons.bat in the + "App Paths" key, so scons.bat can be executed without adding the + directory to the %PATH%. (Python itself works this way.) + + From Anonymous: + + - Fix looking for default paths in Visual Studio 8.0 (and later). + + - Add -lm to the list of default D libraries for linking. + + From Matt Doar: + + - Provide a more complete write-your-own-Scanner example in the man page. + + From Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve: + + - Contributed upstream Python change to our copied subprocess.py module + for more efficient standard input processing. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix the Node.FS.Base.rel_path() method when the two nodes are on + different drive letters. (This caused an infinite loop when + trying to write .sconsign files.) + + - Fully support Scanners that use a dictionary to map file suffixes + to other scanners. + + - Support delayed evaluation of the $SPAWN variable to allow selection + of a function via ${} string expansions. + + - Add --srcdir as a synonym for -Y/--repository. + + - Document limitations of #include "file.h" with Repository(). + + - Fix use of a toolpath under the source directory of a BuildDir(). + + - Fix env.Install() with a file name portion that begins with '#'. + + - Fix ParseConfig()'s handling of multiple options in a string that's + replaced a *FLAGS construction variable. + + - Have the C++ tools initialize common C compilation variables ($CCFLAGS, + $SHCCFLAGS and $_CCCOMCOM) even if the 'cc' Tool isn't loaded. + + From Leanid Nazdrynau: + + - Fix detection of Java anonymous classes if a newline precedes the + opening brace. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Document use of ${} to execute arbitrary Python code. + + - Add support for: + 1) automatically adding a site_scons subdirectory (in the top-level + SConstruct directory) to sys.path (PYTHONPATH); + 2) automatically importing site_scons/site_init.py; + 3) automatically adding site_scons/site_tools to the toolpath. + + From John Pye: + + - Change ParseConfig() to preserve white space in arguments passed in + as a list. + + From a smith: + + - Fix adding explicitly-named Java inner class files (and any + other file names that may contain a '$') to Jar files. + + From David Vitek: + + - Add a NoCache() function to mark targets as unsuitable for propagating + to (or retrieving from) a CacheDir(). + + From Ben Webb: + + - If the swig -noproxy option is used, it won't generate a .py file, + so don't emit it as a target that we expect to be built. + + + +RELEASE 0.96.94 - Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:36:20 -0600 + + NOTE: This is a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes. + + From Anonymous: + + - Allow arbitrary white space after a SWIG %module declaration. + + From Paul: + + - When compiling resources under MinGW, make sure there's a space + between the --include-dir option and its argument. + + From Jay Kint: + + - Alleviate long command line issues on Windows by executing command + lines directly via os.spawnv() if the command line doesn't need + shell interpretation (has no pipes, redirection, etc.). + + From Walter Franzini: + + - Exclude additional Debian packaging files from the copyright check. + + From Fawad Halim: + + - Handle the conflict between the impending Python 2.6 'as' keyword + and our Tool/as.py module name. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Speed up the Node.FS.Dir.rel_path() method used to generate path names + that get put into the .sconsign* file(s). + + - Optimize Node.FS.Base.get_suffix() by computing the suffix once, up + front, when we set the Node's name. (Duh...) + + - Reduce the Memoizer's responsibilities to simply counting hits and + misses when the --debug=memoizer option is used, not to actually + handling the key calculation and memoization itself. This speeds + up some configurations significantly, and should cause no functional + differences. + + - Add a new scons-time script with subcommands for generating + consistent timing output from SCons configurations, extracting + various information from those timings, and displaying them in + different formats. + + - Reduce some unnecessary stat() calls from on-disk entry type checks. + + - Fix SideEffect() when used with -j, which was badly broken in 0.96.93. + + - Propagate TypeError exceptions when evaluating construction variable + expansions up the stack, so users can see what's going on. + + - When disambiguating a Node.FS.Entry into a Dir or File, don't look + in the on-disk source directory until we've confirmed there's no + on-disk entry locally and there *is* one in the srcdir. This avoids + creating a phantom Node that can interfere with dependencies on + directory contents. + + - Add an AllowSubstExceptions() function that gives the SConscript + files control over what exceptions cause a string to expand to '' + vs. terminating processing with an error. + + - Allow the f90.py and f95.py Tool modules to compile earlier source + source files of earlier Fortran version. + + - Fix storing signatures of files retrieved from CacheDir() so they're + correctly identified as up-to-date next invocation. + + - Make sure lists of computed source suffixes cached by Builder objects + don't persist across changes to the list of source Builders (so the + addition of suffixes like .ui by the qt.py Tool module take effect). + + - Enhance the bootstrap.py script to allow it to be used to execute + SCons more easily from a checked-out source tree. + + From Ben Leslie: + + - Fix post-Memoizer value caching misspellings in Node.FS._doLookup(). + + From Rob Managan, Dmitry Mikhin and Joel B. Mohler: + + - Handle TeX/LaTeX files in subdirectories by changing directory + before invoking TeX/LaTeX. + + - Scan LaTeX files for \bibliography lines. + + - Support multiple file names in a "\bibliography{file1,file2}" string. + + - Handle TeX warnings about undefined citations. + + - Support re-running LaTeX if necessary due to a Table of Contents. + + From Dmitry Mikhin: + + - Return LaTeX if "Rerun to get citations correct" shows up on the next + line after the "Warning:" string. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Add #include lines to fix portability issues in two tests. + + - Eliminate some unnecessary os.path.normpath() calls. + + - Add a $CFLAGS variable for C-specific options, leaving $CCFLAGS + for options common to C and C++. + + From Tom Parker: + + - Have the error message print the missing file that Qt can't find. + + From John Pye: + + - Fix env.MergeFlags() appending to construction variable value of None. + + From Steve Robbins: + + - Fix the "sconsign" script when the .sconsign.dblite file is explicitly + specified on the command line (and not intuited from the old way of + calling it with just ".sconsign"). + + From Jose Pablo Ezequiel "Pupeno" Fernandez Silva: + + - Give the 'lex' tool knowledge of the additional target files produced + by the flex "--header-file=" and "--tables-file=" options. + + - Give the 'yacc' tool knowledge of the additional target files produced + by the bison "-g", "--defines=" and "--graph=" options. + + - Generate intermediate files with Objective C file suffixes (.m) when + the lex and yacc source files have appropriate suffixes (.lm and .ym). + + From Sohail Somain: + + - Have the mslink.py Tool only look for a 'link' executable on Windows + systems. + + From Vaclav Smilauer: + + - Add support for a "srcdir" keyword argument when calling a Builder, + which will add a srcdir prefix to all non-relative string sources. + + From Jonathan Ultis: + + - Allow Options converters to take the construction environment as + an optional argument. + + + +RELEASE 0.96.93 - Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:44:11 -0600 + + NOTE: This is a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes. + + From Anonymous: + + - Allow Python Value Nodes to be Builder targets. + + From Matthias: + + - Only filter Visual Studio common filename prefixes on complete + directory names. + + From Chad Austin: + + - Fix the build of the SCons documentation on systems that don't + have "python" in the $PATH. + + From Ken Boortz: + + - Enhance ParseConfig() to recognize options that begin with '+'. + + From John Calcote, Elliot Murphy: + + - Document ways to override the CCPDBFLAGS variable to use the + Microsoft linker's /Zi option instead of the default /Z7. + + From Christopher Drexler: + + - Make SCons aware bibtex must be called if any \include files + cause creation of a bibliography. + + - Make SCons aware that "\bilbiography" in TeX source files means + that related .bbl and .blg bibliography files will be created. + (NOTE: This still needs to search for the string in \include files.) + + From David Gruener: + + - Fix inconsistent handling of Action strfunction arguments. + + - Preserve white space in display Action strfunction strings. + + From James Y. Knight and Gerard Patel: + + - Support creation of shared object files from assembly language. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Speed up the Taskmaster significantly by avoiding unnecessary + re-scans of Nodes to find out if there's work to be done, having it + track the currently-executed top-level target directly and not + through its presence on the target list, and eliminating some other + minor list(s), method(s) and manipulation. + + - Fix the expansion of $TARGET and $SOURCE in the expansion of + $INSTALLSTR displayed for non-environment calls to InstallAs(). + + - Fix the ability to have an Alias() call refer to a directory + name that's not identified as a directory until later. + + - Enhance runtest.py with an option to use QMTest as the harness. + This will become the default behavior as we add more functionality + to the QMTest side. + + - Let linking on mingw use the default function that chooses $CC (gcc) + or $CXX (g++) depending on whether there are any C++ source files. + + - Work around a bug in early versions of the Python 2.4 profile module + that caused the --profile= option to fail. + + - Only call Options validators and converters once when initializing a + construction environment. + + - Fix the ability of env.Append() and env.Prepend(), in all known Python + versions, to handle different input value types when the construction + variable being updated is a dictionary. + + - Add a --cache-debug option for information about what files it's + looking for in a CacheDir(). + + - Document the difference in construction variable expansion between + {Action,Builder}() and env.{Action,Builder}(). + + - Change the name of env.Copy() to env.Clone(), keeping the old name + around for backwards compatibility (with the intention of eventually + phasing it out to avoid confusion with the Copy() Action factory). + + From Arve Knudsen: + + - Support cleaning and scanning SWIG-generated files. + + From Carsten Koch: + + - Allow selection of Visual Studio version by setting $MSVS_VERSION + after construction environment initialization. + + From Jean-Baptiste Lab: + + - Try using zipimport if we can't import Tool or Platform modules + using the normal "imp" module. This allows SCons to be packaged + using py2exe's all-in-one-zip-file approach. + + From Ben Liblit: + + - Do not re-scan files if the scanner returns no implicit dependencies. + + From Sanjoy Mahajan: + + - Change use of $SOURCES to $SOURCE in all TeX-related Tool modules. + + From Joel B. Mohler: + + - Make SCons aware that "\makeindex" in TeX source files means that + related .ilg, .ind and .idx index files will be created. + (NOTE: This still needs to search for the string in \include files.) + + - Prevent scanning the TeX .aux file for additional files from + trying to remove it twice when the -c option is used. + + From Leanid Nazdrynau: + + - Give the MSVC RES (resource) Builder a src_builder list and a .rc + src_suffix so other builders can generate .rc files. + + From Matthew A. Nicholson: + + - Enhance Install() and InstallAs() to handle directory trees as sources. + + From Jan Nijtmans: + + - Don't use the -fPIC flag when using gcc on Windows (e.g. MinGW). + + From Greg Noel: + + - Add an env.ParseFlags() method that provides separate logic for + parsing GNU tool chain flags into a dictionary. + + - Add an env.MergeFlags() method to apply an arbitrary dictionary + of flags to a construction environment's variables. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Fix parsing tripartite Intel C compiler version numbers on Linux. + + - Extend the ParseConfig() function to recognize -arch and + -isysroot options. + + - Have the error message list the known suffixes when a Builder call + can't build a source file with an unknown suffix. + + From Karol Pietrzak: + + - Avoid recursive calls to main() in the program snippet used by the + SConf subsystem to test linking against libraries. This changes the + default behavior of CheckLib() and CheckLibWithHeader() to print + "Checking for C library foo..." instead of "Checking for main() + in C library foo...". + + From John Pye: + + - Throw an exception if a command called by ParseConfig() or + ParseFlags() returns an error. + + From Stefan Seefeld: + + - Initial infrastructure for running SCons tests under QMTest. + + From Sohail Somani: + + - Fix tests that fail due to gcc warnings. + + From Dobes Vandermeer: + + - In stack traces, print the full paths of SConscript files. + + From Atul Varma: + + - Fix detection of Visual C++ Express Edition. + + From Dobes Vandermeer: + + - Let the src_dir option to the SConscript() function affect all the + the source file paths, instead of treating all source files paths + as relative to the SConscript directory itself. + + From Nicolas Vigier: + + - Fix finding Fortran modules in build directories. + + - Fix use of BuildDir() when the source file in the source directory + is a symlink with a relative path. + + From Edward Wang: + + - Fix the Memoizer when the SCons Python modules are executed from + .pyo files at different locations from where they were compiled. + + From Johan Zander: + + - Fix missing os.path.join() when constructing the $FRAMEWORKSDKDIR/bin. + + + +RELEASE 0.96.92 - Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:08:22 -0400 + + NOTE: This was a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes. + + From Anonymous: + + - Fix the intelc.py Tool module to not throw an exception if the + only installed version is something other than ia32. + + - Set $CCVERSION when using gcc. + + From Matthias: + + - Support generating project and solution files for Microsoft + Visual Studio version 8. + + - Support generating more than one project file for a Microsoft + Visual Studio solution file. + + - Add support for a support "runfile" parameter to Microsoft + Visual Studio project file creation. + + - Put the project GUID, not the solution GUID, in the right spot + in the solution file. + + From Erling Andersen: + + - Fix interpretation of Node.FS objects wrapped in Proxy instances, + allowing expansion of things like ${File(TARGET)} in command lines. + + From Stanislav Baranov: + + - Add a separate MSVSSolution() Builder, with support for the + following new construction variables: $MSVSBUILDCOM, $MSVSCLEANCOM, + $MSVSENCODING, $MSVSREBUILDCOM, $MSVSSCONS, $MSVSSCONSCOM, + $MSVSSCONSFLAGS, $MSVSSCONSCRIPT and $MSVSSOLUTIONCOM. + + From Ralph W. Grosse-Kunstleve and Patrick Mezard: + + - Remove unneceesary (and incorrect) SCons.Util strings on some function + calls in SCons.Util. + + From Bob Halley: + + - Fix C/C++ compiler selection on AIX to not always use the external $CC + environment variable. + + From August Hörandl: + + - Add a scanner for \include and \import files, with support for + searching a directory list in $TEXINPUTS (imported from the external + environment). + + - Support $MAKEINDEX, $MAKEINDEXCOM, $MAKEINDEXCOMSTR and + $MAKEINDEXFLAGS for generating indices from .idx files. + + From Steven Johnson: + + - Add a NoClean() Environment method and function to override removal + of targets during a -c clean, including documentation and tests. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Check for whether files exist on disk by listing the directory + contents, not calling os.path.exists() file by file. This is + somewhat more efficient in general, and may be significantly + more efficient on Windows. + + - Minor speedups in the internal is_Dict(), is_List() and is_String() + functions. + + - Fix a signature refactoring bug that caused Qt header files to + get re-generated every time. + + - Don't fail when writing signatures if the .sconsign.dblite file is + owned by a different user (e.g. root) from a previous run. + + - When deleting variables from stacked OverrideEnvironments, don't + throw a KeyError if we were able to delte the variable from any + Environment in the stack. + + - Get rid of the last indentation tabs in the SCons source files and + add -tt to the Python invocations in the packaging build and the + tests so they don't creep back in. + + - In Visual Studio project files, put quotes around the -C directory + so everything works even if the path has spaces in it. + + - The Intel Fortran compiler uses -object:$TARGET, not "-o $TARGET", + when building object files on Windows. Have the the ifort Tool + modify the default command lines appropriately. + + - Document the --debug=explain option in the man page. (How did we + miss this?) + + - Add a $LATEXRETRIES variable to allow configuration of the number of + times LaTex can be re-called to try to resolve undefined references. + + - Change the order of the arguments to Configure.Checklib() to match + the documentation. + + - Handle signature calculation properly when the Python function used + for a FunctionAction is an object method. + + - On Windows, assume that absolute path names without a drive letter + refer to the drive on which the SConstruct file lives. + + - Add /usr/ccs/bin to the end of the the default external execution + PATH on Solaris. + + - Add $PKGCHK and $PKGINFO variables for use on Solaris when searching + for the SunPRO C++ compiler. Make the default value for $PKGCHK + be /usr/sbin/pgkchk (since /usr/sbin isn't usually on the external + execution $PATH). + + - Fix a man page example of overriding variables when calling + SharedLibrary() to also set the $LIBSUFFIXES variable. + + - Add a --taskmastertrace=FILE option to give some insight on how + the taskmaster decides what Node to build next. + + - Changed the names of the old $WIN32DEFPREFIX, $WIN32DEFSUFFIX, + $WIN32DLLPREFIX and $WIN32IMPLIBPREFIX construction variables to + new $WINDOWSDEFPREFIX, $WINDOWSDEFSUFFIX, $WINDOWSDLLPREFIX and + $WINDOWSIMPLIBPREFIX construction variables. The old names are now + deprecated, but preserved for backwards compatibility. + + - Fix (?) a runtest.py hang on Windows when the --xml option is used. + + - Change the message when an error occurs trying to interact with the + file system to report the target(s) in square brackets (as before) and + the actual file or directory that encountered the error afterwards. + + From Chen Lee: + + - Add x64 support for Microsoft Visual Studio 8. + + From Baptiste Lepilleur: + + - Support the --debug=memory option on Windows when the Python version + has the win32process and win32api modules. + + - Add support for Visual Studio 2005 Pro. + + - Fix portability issues in various tests: test/Case.py, + Test/Java/{JAR,JARCHDIR,JARFLAGS,JAVAC,JAVACFLAGS,JAVAH,RMIC}.py, + test/MSVS/vs-{6.0,7.0,7.1,8.0}-exec.py, + test/Repository/{Java,JavaH,RMIC}.py, + test/QT/{generated-ui,installed,up-to-date,warnings}.py, + test/ZIP/ZIP.py. + + - Ignore pkgchk errors on Solaris when searching for the C++ compiler. + + - Speed up the SCons/EnvironmentTests.py unit tests. + + - Add a --verbose= option to runtest.py to print executed commands + and their output at various levels. + + From Christian Maaser: + + - Add support for Visual Studio Express Editions. + + - Add support for Visual Studio 8 *.manifest files, includng + new $WINDOWS_INSERT_MANIFEST, $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTSUFFIX, + $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTPREFIX, $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTSUFFIX, + $WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTPREFIX and $WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTSUFFIX + construction variables. + + From Adam MacBeth: + + - Fix detection of additional Java inner classes following use of a + "new" keyword inside an inner class. + + From Sanjoy Mahajan: + + - Correct TeX-related command lines to just $SOURCE, not $SOURCES + + From Patrick Mezard: + + - Execute build commands for a command-line target if any of the + files built along with the target is out of date or non-existent, + not just if the command-line target itself is out of date. + + - Fix the -n option when used with -c to print all of the targets + that will be removed for a multi-target Builder call. + + - If there's no file in the source directory, make sure there isn't + one in the build directory, too, to avoid dangling files left + over from previous runs when a source file is removed. + + - Allow AppendUnique() and PrependUnique() to append strings (and + other atomic objects) to lists. + + From Joel B. Mohler: + + - Extend latex.py, pdflatex.py, pdftex.py and tex.py so that building + from both TeX and LaTeX files uses the same logic to call $BIBTEX + when it's necessary, to call $MAKEINDEX when it's necessary, and to + call $TEX or $LATEX multiple times to handle undefined references. + + - Add an emitter to the various TeX builders so that the generated + .aux and .log files also get deleted by the -c option. + + From Leanid Nazdrynau: + + - Fix the Qt UIC scanner to work with generated .ui files (by using + the FindFile() function instead of checking by-hand for the file). + + From Jan Nieuwenhuizen: + + - Fix a problem with interpreting quoted argument lists on command lines. + + From Greg Noel: + + - Add /sw/bin to the default execution PATH on Mac OS X. + + From Kian Win Ong: + + - When building a .jar file and there is a $JARCHDIR, put the -C + in front of each .class file on the command line. + + - Recognize the Java 1.5 enum keyword. + + From Asfand Yar Qazi: + + - Add /opt/bin to the default execution PATH on all POSIX platforms + (between /usr/local/bin and /bin). + + From Jon Rafkind: + + - Fix the use of Configure() contexts from nested subsidiary + SConscript files. + + From Christoph Schulz: + + - Add support for $CONFIGUREDIR and $CONFIGURELOG variables to control + the directory and logs for configuration tests. + + - Add support for a $INSTALLSTR variable. + + - Add support for $RANLIBCOM and $RANLIBCOMSTR variables (which fixes + a bug when setting $ARCOMSTR). + + From Amir Szekely: + + - Add use of $CPPDEFINES to $RCCOM (resource file compilation) on MinGW. + + From Erick Tryzelaar: + + - Fix the error message when trying to report that a given option is + not gettable/settable from an SConscript file. + + From Dobes Vandermeer: + + - Add support for SCC and other settings in Microsoft Visual + Studio project and solution files: $MSVS_PROJECT_BASE_PATH, + $MSVS_PROJECT_GUID, $MSVS_SCC_AUX_PATH, $MSVS_SCC_LOCAL_PATH, + $MSVS_SCC_PROJECT_NAME, $MSVS_SCC_PROVIDER, + + - Add support for using a $SCONS_HOME variable (imported from the + external environment, or settable internally) to put a shortened + SCons execution line in the Visual Studio project file. + + From David J. Van Maren: + + - Only filter common prefixes from source files names in Visual Studio + project files if the prefix is a complete (sub)directory name. + + From Thad Ward: + + - If $MSVSVERSIONS is already set, don't overwrite it with + information from the registry. + + + +RELEASE 0.96.91 - Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:18:23 -0400 + + NOTE: This was a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes. + + From Chad Austin: + + - Have the environment store the toolpath and re-use it to find Tools + modules during later Copy() or Tool() calls (unless overridden). + + - Normalize the directory path names in SConsignFile() database + files so the same signature file can interoperate on Windows and + non-Windows systems. + + - Make --debug=stacktrace print a stacktrace when a UserError is thrown. + + - Remove an old, erroneous cut-and-paste comment in Scanner/Dir.py. + + From Stanislav Baranov: + + - Make it possible to support with custom Alias (sub-)classes. + + - Allow Builders to take empty source lists when called. + + - Allow access to both TARGET and SOURCE in $*PATH expansions. + + - Allow SConscript files to modify BUILD_TARGETS. + + From Timothee Besset: + + - Add support for Objective C/C++ .m and .mm file suffixes (for + Mac OS X). + + From Charles Crain + + - Fix the PharLap linkloc.py module to use target+source arguments + when calling env.subst(). + + From Bjorn Eriksson: + + - Fix an incorrect Command() keyword argument in the man page. + + - Add a $TEMPFILEPREFIX variable to control the prefix or flag used + to pass a long-command-line-execution tempfile to a command. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Enhanced the SCons setup.py script to install man pages on + UNIX/Linux systems. + + - Add support for an Options.FormatOptionHelpText() method that can + be overridden to customize the format of Options help text. + + - Add a global name for the Entry class (which had already been + documented). + + - Fix re-scanning of generated source files for implicit dependencies + when the -j option is used. + + - Fix a dependency problem that caused $LIBS scans to not be added + to all of the targets in a multiple-target builder call, which + could cause out-of-order builds when the -j option is used. + + - Store the paths of source files and dependencies in the .sconsign* + file(s) relative to the target's directory, not relative to the + top-level SConstruct directory. This starts to make it possible to + subdivide the dependency tree arbitrarily by putting an SConstruct + file in every directory and using content signatures. + + - Add support for $YACCHFILESUFFIX and $YACCHXXFILESUFFIX variables + that accomodate parser generators that write header files to a + different suffix than the hard-coded .hpp when the -d option is used. + + - The default behavior is now to store signature information in a + single .sconsign.dblite file in the top-level SConstruct directory. + The old behavior of a separate .sconsign file in each directory can + be specified by calling SConsignFile(None). + + - Remove line number byte codes within the signature calculation + of Python function actions, so that changing the location of an + otherwise unmodified Python function doesn't cause rebuilds. + + - Fix AddPreAction() and AddPostAction() when an action has more than + one target file: attach the actions to the Executor, not the Node. + + - Allow the source directory of a BuildDir / build_dir to be outside + of the top-level SConstruct directory tree. + + - Add a --debug=nomemoizer option that disables the Memoizer for clearer + looks at the counts and profiles of the underlying function calls, + not the Memoizer wrappers. + + - Print various --debug= stats even if we exit early (e.g. using -h). + + - Really only use the cached content signature value if the file + is older than --max-drift, not just if --max-drift is set. + + - Remove support for conversion from old (pre 0.96) .sconsign formats. + + - Add support for a --diskcheck option to enable or disable various + on-disk checks: that File and Dir nodes match on-disk entries; + whether an RCS file exists for a missing source file; whether an + SCCS file exists for a missing source file. + + - Add a --raw argument to the sconsign script, so it can print a + raw representation of each entry's NodeInfo dictionary. + + - Add the 'f90' and 'f95' tools to the list of Fortran compilers + searched for by default. + + - Add the +Z option by default when compiling shared objects on + HP-UX. + + From Chen Lee: + + - Handle Visual Studio project and solution files in Unicode. + + From Sanjoy Mahajan: + + - Fix a bad use of Copy() in an example in the man page, and a + bad regular expression example in the man page and User's Guide. + + From Shannon Mann: + + - Have the Visual Studio project file(s) echo "Starting SCons" before + executing SCons, mainly to work around a quote-stripping bug in + (some versions of?) the Windows cmd command executor. + + From Georg Mischler: + + - Remove the space after the -o option when invoking the Borland + BCC compiler; some versions apparently require that the file name + argument be concatenated with the option. + + From Leanid Nazdrynau: + + - Fix the Java parser's handling of backslashes in strings. + + From Greg Noel: + + - Add construction variables to support frameworks on Mac OS X: + $FRAMEWORKS, $FRAMEWORKPREFIX, $FRAMEWORKPATH, $FRAMEWORKPATHPREFIX. + + - Re-order link lines so the -o option always comes right after the + command name. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Add support for Intel C++ beta 9.0 (both 32 and 64 bit versions). + + - Document the new $FRAMEWORK* variables for Mac OS X. + + From Karol Pietrzak: + + - Add $RPATH (-R) support to the Sun linker Tool (sunlink). + + - Add a description of env.subst() to the man page. + + From Chris Prince: + + - Look in the right directory, not always the local directory, for a + same-named file or directory conflict on disk. + + - On Windows, preserve the external environment's %SYSTEMDRIVE% + variable, too. + + From Craig Scott: + + - Have the Fortran module emitter look for Fortan modules to be created + relative to $FORTRANMODDIR, not the top-level directory. + + - When saving Options to a file, run default values through the + converter before comparing them with the set values. This correctly + suppresses Boolean Option values from getting written to the saved + file when they're one of the many synonyms for a default True or + False value. + + - Fix the Fortran Scanner's ability to handle a module being used + in the same file in which it is defined. + + From Steve-o: + + - Add the -KPIC option by default when compiling shared objects on + Solaris. + + - Change the default suffix for Solaris objects to .o, to conform to + Sun WorkShop's expectations. Change the profix to so_ so they can + still be differentiated from static objects in the same directory. + + From Amir Szekely: + + - When calling the resource compiler on MinGW, add --include-dir and + the source directory so it finds the source file. + + - Update EnsureSConsVersion() to support revision numbers. + + From Greg Ward: + + - Fix a misplaced line in the man page. + + + +RELEASE 0.96.90 - Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:21:12 +0000 + + NOTE: This was a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes. + + From Anonymous: + + - Fix Java parsing to avoid erroneously identifying a new array + of class instances as an anonymous inner class. + + - Fix a typo in the man page description of PathIsDirCreate. + + From Chad Austin: + + - Allow Help() to be called multiple times, appending to the help + text each call. + + - Allow Tools found on a toolpath to import Python modules from + their local directory. + + From Steve Christensen: + + - Handle exceptions from Python functions as build actions. + + - Add a set of canned PathOption validators: PathExists (the default), + PathIsFile, PathIsDir and PathIsDirCreate. + + From Matthew Doar: + + - Add support for .lex and .yacc file suffixes for Lex and Yacc files. + + From Eric Frias: + + - Huge performance improvement: wrap the tuples representing an + include path in an object, so that the time it takes to hash the + path doesn't grow porportionally to the length of the path. + + From Gottfried Ganssauge: + + - Fix SCons on SuSE/AMD-64 Linux by having the wrapper script also + check for the build engine in the parent directory of the Python + library directory (/usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib). + + From Stephen Kennedy: + + - Speed up writing the .sconsign file at the end of a run by only + calling sync() once at the end, not after every entry. + + From Steven Knight: + + - When compiling with Microsoft Visual Studio, don't include the ATL and + MFC directories in the default INCLUDE and LIB environment variables. + + - Remove the following deprecated features: the ParseConfig() + global function (deprecated in 0.93); the misspelled "validater" + keyword to the Options.Add() method (deprecated in 0.91); the + SetBuildSignatureType(), SetContentSignatureType(), SetJobs() and + GetJobs() global functions (deprecated in 0.14). + + - Fix problems with corrupting the .sconsign.dblite file when + interrupting builds by writing to a temporary file and renaming, + not writing the file directly. + + - Fix a 0.96 regression where when running with -k, targets built from + walking dependencies later on the command line would not realize + that a dependency had failed an earlier build attempt, and would + try to rebuild the dependent targets. + + - Change the final messages when using -k and errors occur from + "{building,cleaning} terminated because of errors" to "done + {building,cleaning} targets (errors occurred during {build,clean})." + + - Allow Configure.CheckFunc() to take an optional header argument + (already supported by Conftest.py) to specify text at the top of + the compiled test file. + + - Fix the --debug=explain output when a Python function action changed + so it prints a meaningful string, not the binary representation of + the function contents. + + - Allow a ListOption's default value(s) to be a Python list of specified + values, not just a string containing a comma-separated list of names. + + - Add a ParseDepends() function that will parse up a list of explicit + dependencies from a "make depend" style file. + + - Support the ability to change directory when executing an Action + through "chdir" keyword arguments to Action and Builder creation + and calls. + + - Fix handling of Action ojects (and other callables that don't match + our calling arguments) in construction variable expansions. + + - On Win32, install scons.bat in the Python directory when installing + from setup.py. (The bdist_wininst installer was already doing this.) + + - Fix env.SConscript() when called with a list of SConscipt files. + (The SConscript() global function already worked properly.) + + - Add a missing newline to the end of the --debug=explain "unknown + reasons" message. + + - Enhance ParseConfig() to work properly for spaces in between the -I, + -L and -l options and their arguments. + + - Packaging build fix: Rebuild the files that are use to report the + --version of SCons whenever the development version number changes. + + - Fix the ability to specify a target_factory of Dir() to a Builder, + which the default create-a-directory Builder was interfering with. + + - Mark a directory as built if it's created as part of the preparation + for another target, to avoid trying to build it again when it comes + up in the target list. + + - Allow a function with the right calling signature to be put directly + in an Environment's BUILDERS dictionary, making for easier creation + and use of wrappers (pseudo-Builders) that call other Builders. + + - On Python 2.x, wrap lists of Nodes returned by Builders in a UserList + object that adds a method that makes str() object return a string + with all of the Nodes expanded to their path names. (Builders under + Python 1.5.2 still return lists to avoid TypeErrors when trying + to extend() list, so Python 1.5.2 doesn't get pretty-printing of Node + lists, but everything should still function.) + + - Allow Aliases to have actions that will be executed whenever + any of the expanded Alias targets are out of date. + + - Fix expansion of env.Command() overrides within target and + source file names. + + - Support easier customization of what's displayed by various default + actions by adding lots of new construction variables: $ARCOMSTR, + $ASCOMSTR, $ASPPCOMSTR, $BIBTEXCOMSTR, $BITKEEPERCOMSTR, $CCCOMSTR, + $CVSCOMSTR, $CXXCOMSTR, $DCOMSTR, $DVIPDFCOMSTR, $F77COMSTR, + $F90COMSTR, $F95COMSTR, $FORTRANCOMSTR, $GSCOMSTR, $JARCOMSTR, + $JAVACCOMSTR, $JAVAHCOMSTR, $LATEXCOMSTR, $LEXCOMSTR, $LINKCOMSTR, + $M4COMSTR, $MIDLCOMSTR, $P4COMSTR, $PCHCOMSTR, $PDFLATEXCOMSTR, + $PDFTEXCOMSTR, $PSCOMSTR, $QT_MOCFROMCXXCOMSTR, $QT_MOCFROMHCOMSTR, + $QT_UICCOMSTR, $RCCOMSTR, $REGSVRCOMSTR, $RCS_COCOMSTR, $RMICCOMSTR, + $SCCSCOMSTR, $SHCCCOMSTR, $SHCXXCOMSTR, $SHF77COMSTR, $SHF90COMSTR, + $SHF95COMSTR, $SHFORTRANCOMSTR, $SHLINKCOMSTR, $SWIGCOMSTR, + $TARCOMSTR, $TEXCOMSTR, $YACCCOMSTR and $ZIPCOMSTR. + + - Add an optional "map" keyword argument to ListOption() that takes a + dictionary to map user-specified values to legal values from the list + (like EnumOption() already doee). + + - Add specific exceptions to try:-except: blocks without any listed, + so that they won't catch and mask keyboard interrupts. + + - Make --debug={tree,dtree,stree} print something even when there's + a build failure. + + - Fix how Scanners sort the found dependencies so that it doesn't + matter whether the dependency file is in a Repository or not. + This may cause recompilations upon upgrade to this version. + + - Make AlwaysBuild() work with Alias and Python value Nodes (making + it much simpler to support aliases like "clean" that just invoke + an arbitrary action). + + - Have env.ParseConfig() use AppendUnique() by default to suppress + duplicate entries from multiple calls. Add a "unique" keyword + argument to allow the old behavior to be specified. + + - Allow the library modules imported by an SConscript file to get at + all of the normally-available global functions and variables by saying + "from SCons.Script import *". + + - Add a --debug=memoizer option to print Memoizer hit/mass statistics. + + - Allow more than one --debug= option to be set at a time. + + - Change --debug=count to report object counts before and after + reading SConscript files and before and after building targets. + + - Change --debug=memory output to line up the numbers and to better + match (more or less) the headers on the --debug=count columns. + + - Speed things up when there are lists of targets and/or sources by + getting rid of some N^2 walks of the lists involved. + + - Cache evaluation of LazyActions so we don't create a new object + for each invocation. + + - When scanning, don't create Nodes for include files that don't + actually exist on disk. + + - Make supported global variables CScanner, DScanner, ProgramScanner and + SourceFileScanner. Make SourceFileScanner.add_scanner() a supported + part of the public interface. Keep the old SCons.Defaults.*Scan names + around for a while longer since some people were already using them. + + - By default, don't scan directories for on-disk files. Add a + DirScanner global scanner that can be used in Builders or Command() + calls that want source directory trees scanned for on-disk changes. + Have the Tar() and Zip() Builders use the new DirScanner to preserve + the behavior of rebuilding a .tar or .zip file if any file or + directory under a source tree changes. Add Command() support for + a source_scanner keyword argument to Command() that can be set to + DirScanner to get this behavior. + + - Documentation changes: Explain that $CXXFLAGS contains $CCFLAGS + by default. Fix a bad target_factory example in the man page. + Add appendices to the User's Guide to cover the available Tools, + Builders and construction variables. Comment out the build of + the old Python 10 paper, which doesn't build on all systems and + is old enough at this point that it probably isn't worth the + effort to make it do so. + + From Wayne Lee: + + - Avoid "maximum recursion limit" errors when removing $(-$) pairs + from long command lines. + + From Clive Levinson: + + - Make ParseConfig() recognize and add -mno-cygwin to $LINKFLAGS and + $CCFLAGS, and -mwindows to $LINKFLAGS. + + From Michael McCracken: + + - Add a new "applelink" tool to handle the things like Frameworks and + bundles that Apple has added to gcc for linking. + + - Use more appropriate default search lists of linkers, compilers and + and other tools for the 'darwin' platform. + + - Add a LoadableModule Builder that builds a bundle on Mac OS X (Darwin) + and a shared library on other systems. + + - Improve SWIG tests for use on Mac OS X (Darwin). + + From Elliot Murphy: + + - Enhance the tests to guarantee persistence of ListOption + values in saved options files. + + - Supply the help text when -h is used with the -u, -U or -D options. + + From Christian Neeb: + + - Fix the Java parser's handling of string definitions to avoid ignoring + subsequent code. + + From Han-Wen Nienhuys: + + - Optimize variable expansion by: using the re.sub() method (when + possible); not using "eval" for variables for which we can fetch the + value directory; avoiding slowing substitution logic when there's no + '$' in the string. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Add an Environment.Dump() method to print the contents of a + construction environment. + + - Allow $LIBS (and similar variables) to contain explicit File Nodes. + + - Change ParseConfig to add the found library names directly to the + $LIBS variable, instead of returning them. + + - Add ParseConfig() support for the -framework GNU linker option. + + - Add a PRINT_CMD_LINE_FUNC construction variable to allow people + to filter (or log) command-line output. + + - Print an internal Python stack trace in response to an otherwise + unexplained error when --debug=stacktrace is specified. + + - Add a --debug=findlibs option to print what's happening when + the scanner is searching for libraries. + + - Allow Tool specifications to be passed a dictionary of keyword + arguments. + + - Support an Options default value of None, in which case the variable + will not be added to the construction environment unless it's set + explicitly by the user or from an Options file. + + - Avoid copying __builtin__ values into a construction environment's + dictionary when evaluating construction variables. + + - Add a new cross-platform intelc.py Tool that can detect and + configure the Intel C++ v8 compiler on both Windows, where it's + named icl, and Linux, where it's named icc. It also checks that + the directory specified in the Windows registry exists, and sets a + new $INTEL_C_COMPILER_VERSION construction variable to identify the + version being used. (Niall Douglas contributed an early prototype + of parts of this module.) + + - Fix the private Conftest._Have() function so it doesn't change + non-alphanumeric characters to underscores. + + - Supply a better error message when a construction variable expansion + has an unknown attribute. + + - Documentation changes: Update the man page to describe use of + filenames or Nodes in $LIBS. + + From Chris Pawling: + + - Have the linkloc tool use $MSVS_VERSION to select the Microsoft + Visual Studio version to use. + + From Kevin Quick: + + - Fix the Builder name returned from ListBuilders and other instances + of subclasses of the BuilderBase class. + + - Add Builders and construction variables to support rpcgen: + RPCGenClient(), RPCGenHeader(), RPCGenService(), RPCGenXDR(), + $RPCGEN, $RPCGENFLAGS, $RPCGENCLIENTFLAGS, $RPCGENHEADERFLAGS, + $RPCGENSERVICEFLAGS, $RPCGENXDRFLAGS. + + - Update the man page to document that prefix and suffix Builder + keyword arguments can be strings, callables or dictionaries. + + - Provide more info in the error message when a user tries to build + a target multiple ways. + + - Fix Delete() when a file doesn't exist and must_exist=1. (We were + unintentionally dependent on a bug in versions of the Python shutil.py + module prior to Python 2.3, which would generate an exception for + a nonexistent file even when ignore_errors was set.) + + - Only replace a Node's builder with a non-null source builder. + + - Fix a stack trace when a suffix selection dictionary is passed + an empty source file list. + + - Allow optional names to be attached to Builders, for default + Builders that don't get attached to construction environments. + + - Fix problems with Parallel Task Exception handling. + + - Build targets in an associated BuildDir even if there are targets + or subdirectories locally in the source directory. + + - If a FunctionAction has a callable class as its underlying Python + function, use its strfunction() method (if any) to display the + action. + + - Fix handling when BuildDir() exists but is unwriteable. Add + "Stop." to those error messages for consistency. + + - Catch incidents of bad builder creation (without an action) and + supply meaningful error messages. + + - Fix handling of src_suffix values that aren't extensions (don't + begin with a '.'). + + - Don't retrieve files from a CacheDir, but report what would happen, + when the -n option is used. + + - Use the source_scanner from the target Node, not the source node + itself. + + - Internal Scanners fixes: Make sure Scanners are only passed Nodes. + Fix how a Scanner.Selector called its base class initialization. + Make comparisons of Scanner objects more robust. Add a name to + an internal default ObjSourceScanner. + + - Add a deprecated warning for use of the old "scanner" keyword argument + to Builder creation. + + - Improve the --debug=explain message when the build action changes. + + - Test enhancements in SourceCode.py, option-n.py, midl.py. Better + Command() and Scanner test coverage. Improved test infrastructure + for -c output. + + - Refactor the interface between Action and Executor objects to treat + Actions atomically. + + - The --debug=presub option will now report the pre-substitution + each action seprately, instead of reporting the entire list before + executing the actions one by one. + + - The --debug=explain option explaining a changed action will now + (more correctly) show pre-substitution action strings, instead of + the commands with substituted file names. + + - A Node (file) will now be rebuilt if its PreAction or PostAction + actions change. + + - Python Function actions now have their calling signature (target, + source, env) reported correctly when displayed. + + - Fix BuildDir()/build_dir handling when the build_dir is underneath + the source directory and trying to use entries from the build_dir + as sources for other targets in the build-dir. + + - Fix hard-coding of JDK path names in various Java tests. + + - Handle Python stack traces consistently (stop at the SConscript stack + frame, by default) even if the Python source code isn't available. + + - Improve the performance of the --debug={tree,dtree} options. + + - Add --debug=objects logging of creation of OverrideWarner, + EnvironmentCopy and EnvironmentOverride objects. + + - Fix command-line expansion of Python Value Nodes. + + - Internal cleanups: Remove an unnecessary scan argument. Associate + Scanners only with Builders, not nodes. Apply overrides once when + a Builder is called, not in multiple places. Cache results from the + Node.FS.get_suffix() and Node.get_build_env() methods. Use the Python + md5 modules' hexdigest() method, if there is one. Have Taskmaster + call get_stat() once for each Node and re-use the value instead of + calling it each time it needs the value. Have Node.depends_on() + re-use the list from the children() method instead of calling it + multiple times. + + - Use the correct scanner if the same source file is used for targets in + two different environments with the same path but different scanners. + + - Collect logic for caching values in memory in a Memoizer class, + which cleans up a lot of special-case code in various methods and + caches additional values to speed up most configurations. + + - Add a PathAccept validator to the list of new canned PathOption + validators. + + From Jeff Squyres: + + - Documentation changes: Use $CPPDEFINES instead of $CCFLAGS in man + page examples. + + From Levi Stephen: + + - Allow $JARCHDIR to be expanded to other construction variables. + + From Christoph Wiedemann: + + - Add an Environment.SetDefault() method that only sets values if + they aren't already set. + + - Have the qt.py Tool not override variables already set by the user. + + - Add separate $QT_BINPATH, $QT_CPPPATH and $QT_LIBPATH variables + so these can be set individually, instead of being hard-wired + relative to $QTDIR. + + - The %TEMP% and %TMP% external environment variables are now propagated + automatically to the command execution environment on Windows systems. + + - A new --config= command-line option allows explicit control of + of when the Configure() tests are run: --config=force forces all + checks to be run, --config=cache uses all previously cached values, + --config=auto (the default) runs tests only when dependency analysis + determines it's necessary. + + - The Configure() subsystem can now write a config.h file with values + like HAVE_STDIO_H, HAVE_LIBM, etc. + + - The Configure() subsystem now executes its checks silently when the + -Q option is specified. + + - The Configure() subsystem now reports if a test result is being + taken from cache, and prints the standard output and error output + of tests even when cached. + + - Configure() test results are now reported as "yes" or "no" instead of + "ok" or "failed." + + - Fixed traceback printing when calling the env.Configure() method + instead of the Configure() global function. + + - The Configure() subsystem now caches build failures in a .sconsign + file in the subdirectory, not a .cache file. This may cause + tests to be re-executed the first time after you install 0.97. + + - Additional significant internal cleanups in the Configure() subsystem + and its tests. + + - Have the Qt Builder make uic-generated files dependent on the .ui.h + file, if one exists. + + - Add a test to make sure that SCons source code does not contain + try:-except: blocks that catch all errors, which potentially catch + and mask keyboard interrupts. + + - Fix us of TargetSignatures('content') with the SConf subsystem. + + From Russell Yanofsky: + + - Add support for the Metrowerks Codewarrior compiler and linker + (mwcc and mwld). + + + +RELEASE 0.96.1 - Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:55:50 +0000 + + From Craig Bachelor: + + - Handle white space in the executable Python path name within in MSVS + project files by quoting the path. + + - Correct the format of a GUID string in a solution (.dsw) file so + MSVS can correctly "build enable" a project. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Add a must_exist flag to Delete() to let the user control whether + it's an error if the specified entry doesn't exist. The default + behavior is now to silently do nothing if it doesn't exist. + + - Package up the new Platform/darwin.py, mistakenly left out of 0.96. + + - Make the scons.bat REM statements into @REM so they aren't printed. + + - Make the SCons packaging SConscript files platform independent. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Fix scanning of pre-compiled header (.pch) files for #includes, + broken in 0.96. + + + +RELEASE 0.96 - Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:36:40 +0000 + + From Chad Austin: + + - Make the CacheDir() directory if it doesn't already exist. + + - Allow construction variable substitutions in $LIBS specifications. + + - Allow the emitter argument to a Builder() to be or expand to a list + of emitter functions, which will be called in sequence. + + - Suppress null values in construction variables like $LIBS that use + the internal _concat() function. + + - Remove .dll files from the construction variables searched for + libraries that can be fed to Win32 compilers. + + From Chad Austin and Christoph Wiedemann: + + - Add support for a $RPATH variable to supply a list of directories + to search for shared libraries when linking a program. Used by + the GNU and IRIX linkers (gnulink and sgilink). + + From Charles Crain: + + - Restore the ability to do construction variable substitutions in all + kinds of *PATH variables, even when the substitution returns a Node + or other object. + + From Tom Epperly: + + - Allow the Java() Builder to take more than one source directory. + + From Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve: + + - Have SConsignFile() use, by default, a custom "dblite.py" that we can + control and guarantee to work on all Python versions (or nearly so). + + From Jonathan Gurley: + + - Add support for the newer "ifort" versions of the Intel Fortran + Compiler for Linux. + + From Bob Halley: + + - Make the new *FLAGS variable type work with copied Environments. + + From Chris Hoeppler: + + - Initialize the name of a Scanner.Classic scanner correctly. + + From James Juhasz: + + - Add support for the .dylib shared library suffix and the -dynamiclib + linker option on Mac OS X. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Add an Execute() method for executing actions directly. + + - Support passing environment override keyword arguments to Command(). + + - Fix use of $MSVS_IGNORE_IDE_PATHS, which was broken when we added + support for $MSVS_USE_MFC_DIRS last release. + + - Make env.Append() and env.Prepend() act like the underlying Python + behavior when the variable being appended to is a UserList object. + + - Fix a regression that prevented the Command() global function in + 0.95 from working with command-line strings as actions. + + - Fix checking out a file from a source code management system when + the env.SourceCode() method was called with an individual file name + or node, not a directory name or node. + + - Enhance the Task.make_ready() method to create a list of the + out-of-date Nodes for the task for use by the wrapping interface. + + - Allow Scanners to pull the list of suffixes from the construction + environment when the "skeys" keyword argument is a string containing + a construction variable to be expanded. + + - Support new $CPPSUFFIXES, $DSUFFIXES $FORTRANSUFFIXES, and + $IDLSUFFIXES. construction variables that contain the default list + of suffixes to be scanned by a given type of scanner, allowing these + suffix lists to be easily added to or overridden. + + - Speed up Node creation when calling a Builder by comparing whether two + Environments are the same object, not if their underlying dictionaries + are equivalent. + + - Add a --debug=explain option that reports the reason(s) why SCons + thinks it must rebuild something. + + - Add support for functions that return platform-independent Actions + to Chmod(), Copy(), Delete(), Mkdir(), Move() and Touch() files + and/or directories. Like any other Actions, the returned Action + object may be executed directly using the Execute() global function + or env.Execute() environment method, or may be used as a Builder + action or in an env.Command() action list. + + - Add support for the strfunction argument to all types of Actions: + CommandAction, ListAction, and CommandGeneratorAction. + + - Speed up turning file system Nodes into strings by caching the + values after we're finished reading the SConscript files. + + - Have ParseConfig() recognize and supporting adding the -Wa, -Wl, + and -Wp, flags to ASFLAGS, LINKFLAGS and CPPFLAGS, respectively. + + - Change the .sconsign format and the checks for whether a Node is + up-to-date to make dependency checks more efficient and correct. + + - Add wrapper Actions to SCons.Defaults for $ASCOM, $ASPPCOM, $LINKCOM, + $SHLINKCOM, $ARCOM, $LEXCOM and $YACCCOM. This makes it possible + to replace the default print behavior with a custom strfunction() + for each of these. + + - When a Node has been built, don't walk the whole tree back to delete + the parents's implicit dependencies, let returning up the normal + Taskmaster descent take care of it for us. + + - Add documented support for separate target_scanner and source_scanner + arguments to Builder creation, which allows different scanners to + be applied to source files + + - Don't re-install or (re-generate) .h files when a subsidiary #included + .h file changes. This eliminates incorrect circular dependencies + with .h files generated from other source files. + + - Slim down the internal Sig.Calculator class by eliminating methods + whose functionality is now covered by Node methods. + + - Document use of the target_factory and source_factory keyword + arguments when creating Builder objects. Enhance Dir Nodes so that + they can be created with user-specified Builder objects. + + - Don't blow up with stack trace when the external $PATH environment + variable isn't set. + + - Make Builder calls return lists all the time, even if there's only + one target. This keeps things consistent and easier to program to + across platforms. + + - Add a Flatten() function to make it easier to deal with the Builders + all returning lists of targets, not individual targets. + + - Performance optimizations in Node.FS.__doLookup(). + + - Man page fixes: formatting typos, misspellings, bad example. + + - User's Guide fixes: Fix the signatures of the various example + *Options() calls. Triple-quote properly a multi-line Split example. + + - User's Guide additions: Chapter describing File and Directory + Nodes. Section describing declarative nature of SCons functions in + SConscript files. Better organization and clarification of points + raised by Robert P. J. Day. Chapter describing SConf (Autoconf-like) + functionality. Chapter describing how to install Python and + SCons. Chapter describing Java builds. + + From Chris Murray: + + - Add a .win32 attribute to force file names to expand with + Windows backslash path separators. + + - Fix escaping file names on command lines when the expansion is + concatenated with another string. + + - Add support for Fortran 90 and Fortran 95. This adds $FORTRAN* + variables that specify a default compiler, command-line, flags, + etc. for all Fortran versions, plus separate $F90* and $F95* + variables for when different compilers/flags/etc. must be specified + for different Fortran versions. + + - Have individual tools that create libraries override the default + $LIBPREFIX and $LIBSUFFIX values set by the platform. This makes + it easier to use Microsoft Visual Studio tools on a CygWin platform. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Add a --debug=presub option to print actions prior to substitution. + + - Add a warning upon use of the override keywords "targets" and + "sources" when calling Builders. These are usually mistakes which + are otherwise silently (and confusingly) turned into construction + variable overrides. + + - Try to find the ICL license file path name in the external environment + and the registry before resorting to the hard-coded path name. + + - Add support for fetching command-line keyword=value arguments in + order from an ARGLIST list. + + - Avoid stack traces when trying to read dangling symlinks. + + - Treat file "extensions" that only contain digits as part of the + file basename. This supports version numbers as part of shared + library names, for example. + + - Avoid problems when there are null entries (None or '') in tool + lists or CPPPATH. + + - Add an example and explanation of how to use "tools = ['default', ..." + when creating a construction environment. + + - Add a section describing File and Directory Nodes and some of their + attributes and methods. + + - Have ParseConfig() add a returned -pthread flag to both $CCFLAGS + and $LINKFLAGS. + + - Fix some test portability issues on Mac OS X (darwin). + + From Simon Perkins: + + - Fix a bug introduced in building shared libraries under MinGW. + + From Kevin Quick: + + - Handling SCons exceptions according to Pythonic standards. + + - Fix test/chained-build.py on systems that execute within one second. + + - Fix tests on systems where 'ar' warns about archive creation. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Fix use of the --implicit-cache option with timestamp signatures. + + - If Visual Studio is installed, assume the C/C++ compiler, the linker + and the MIDL compiler that comes with it are available, too. + + - Better error messages when evaluating a construction variable + expansion yields a Python syntax error. + + - Change the generation of PDB files when using Visual Studio from + compile time to link time. + + From sam th: + + - Allow SConf.CheckLib() to search a list of libraries, like the + Autoconf AC_SEARCH_LIBS macro. + + - Allow the env.WhereIs() method to take a "reject" argument to + let it weed out specific path names. + + From Christoph Wiedemann: + + - Add new Moc() and Uic() Builders for more explicit control over + Qt builds, plus new construction variables to control them: + $QT_AUTOSCAN, $QT_DEBUG, $QT_MOCCXXPREFIX, $QT_MOCCXXSUFFIX, + $QT_MOCHPREFIX, $QT_MOCHSUFFIX, $QT_UICDECLPREFIX, $QT_UICDECLSUFFIX, + $QT_UICIMPLPREFIX, $QT_UICIMPLSUFFIX and $QT_UISUFFIX. + + - Add a new single_source keyword argument for Builders that enforces + a single source file on calls to the Builder. + + + +RELEASE 0.95 - Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:43:20 -0600 + + From Chad Austin: + + - Replace print statements with calls to sys.stdout.write() so output + lines stay together when -j is used. + + - Add portability fixes for a number of tests. + + - Accomodate the fact that Cygwin's os.path.normcase() lies about + the underlying system being case-sensitive. + + - Fix an incorrect _concat() call in the $RCINCFLAGS definition for + the mingw Tool. + + - Fix a problem with the msvc tool with Python versions prior to 2.3. + + - Add support for a "toolpath" Tool() and Environment keyword that + allows Tool modules to be found in specified local directories. + + - Work around Cygwin Python's silly fiction that it's using a + case-sensitive file system. + + - More robust handling of data in VCComponents.dat. + + - If the "env" command is available, spawn commands with the more + general "env -" instead of "env -i". + + From Kerim Borchaev: + + - Fix a typo in a msvc.py's registry lookup: "VCComponents.dat", not + "VSComponents.dat". + + From Chris Burghart: + + - Fix the ability to save/restore a PackageOption to a file. + + From Steve Christensen: + + - Update the MSVS .NET and MSVC 6.0/7.0 path detection. + + From David M. Cooke: + + - Make the Fortran scanner case-insensitive for the INCLUDE string. + + From Charles Crain: + + - If no version of MSVC is detected but the tool is specified, + use the MSVC 6.0 paths by default. + + - Ignore any "6.1" version of MSVC found in the registry; this is a + phony version number (created by later service packs?) and would + throw off the logic if the user had any non-default paths configure. + + - Correctly detect if the user has independently configured the MSVC + "include," "lib" or "path" in the registry and use the appropriate + values. Previously, SCons would only use the values if all three + were set in the registry. + + - Make sure side-effect nodes are prepare()d before building their + corresponding target. + + - Preserve the ability to call BuildDir() multiple times with the + same target and source directory arguments. + + From Andy Friesen: + + - Add support for the Digital Mars "D" programming language. + + From Scott Lystig Fritchie: + + - Fix the ability to use a custom _concat() function in the + construction environment when calling _stripixes(). + + - Make the message about ignoring a missing SConscript file into a + suppressable Warning, not a hard-coded sys.stderr.write(). + + - If a builder can be called multiple times for a target (because + the sources and overrides are identical, or it's a builder with the + "multi" flag set), allow the builder to be called through multiple + environments so long as the builders have the same signature for + the environments in questions (that is, they're the same action). + + From Bob Halley: + + - When multiple targets are built by a single action, retrieve all + of them from cache, not just the first target, and exec the build + command if any of the targets isn't present in the cache. + + From Zephaniah Hull: + + - Fix command-line ARGUMENTS with multiple = in them. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix EnsureSConsVersion() so it checks against the SCons version, + not the Python version, on Pythons with sys.version_info. + + - Don't swallow the AttributeError when someone uses an expansion like + $TARGET.bak, so we can supply a more informative error message. + + - Fix an odd double-quote escape sequence in the man page. + + - Fix looking up a naked drive letter as a directory (Dir('C:')). + + - Support using File nodes in the LIBS construction variable. + + - Allow the LIBS construction variable to be a single string or File + node, not a list, when only one library is needed. + + - Fix typos in the man page: JAVACHDIR => JARCHDIR; add "for_signature" + to the __call__() example in the "Variable Substitution" section. + + - Correct error message spellings of "non-existant" to "non-existent." + + - When scanning for libraries to link with, don't append $LIBPREFIXES + or $LIBSUFFIXES values to the $LIBS values if they're already present. + + - Add a ZIPCOMPRESSION construction variable to control whether the + internal Python action for the Zip Builder compresses the file or + not. The default value is zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED, which generates + a compressed file. + + - Refactor construction variable expansion to support recursive + expansion of variables (e.g. CCFLAGS = "$CCFLAGS -g") without going + into an infinite loop. Support this in all construction variable + overrides, as well as when copying Environments. + + - Fix calling Configure() from more than one subsidiary SConscript file. + + - Fix the env.Action() method so it returns the correct type of + Action for its argument(s). + + - Fix specifying .class files as input to JavaH with the .class suffix + when they weren't generated using the Java Builder. + + - Make the check for whether all of the objects going into a + SharedLibrary() are shared work even if the object was built in a + previous run. + + - Supply meaningful error messages, not stack traces, if we try to add + a non-Node as a source, dependency, or ignored dependency of a Node. + + - Generate MSVS Project files that re-invoke SCons properly regardless + of whether the file was built via scons.bat or scons.py. + (Thanks to Niall Douglas for contributing code and testing.) + + - Fix TestCmd.py, runtest.py and specific tests to accomodate being + run from directories whose paths include white space. + + - Provide a more useful error message if a construction variable + expansion contains a syntax error during evaluation. + + - Fix transparent checkout of implicit dependency files from SCCS + and RCS. + + - Added new --debug=count, --debug=memory and --debug=objects options. + --debug=count and --debug=objects only print anything when run + under Python 2.1 or later. + + - Deprecate the "overrides" keyword argument to Builder() creation + in favor of using keyword argument values directly (like we do + for builder execution and the like). + + - Always use the Builder overrides in substitutions, not just if + there isn't a target-specific environment. + + - Add new "rsrcpath" and "rsrcdir" and attributes to $TARGET/$SOURCE, + so Builder command lines can find things in Repository source + directories when using BuildDir. + + - Fix the M4 Builder so that it chdirs to the Repository directory + when the input file is in the source directory of a BuildDir. + + - Save memory at build time by allowing Nodes to delete their build + environments after they've been built. + + - Add AppendUnique() and PrependUnique() Environment methods, which + add values to construction variables like Append() and Prepend() + do, but suppress any duplicate elements in the list. + + - Allow the 'qt' tool to still be used successfully from a copied + Environment. The include and library directories previously ended up + having the same string re-appended to the end, yielding an incorrect + path name. + + - Supply a more descriptive error message when the source for a target + can't be found. + + - Initialize all *FLAGS variables with objects do the right thing with + appending flags as strings or lists. + + - Make things like ${TARGET.dir} work in *PATH construction variables. + + - Allow a $MSVS_USE_MFC_DIRS construction variable to control whether + ATL and MFC directories are included in the default INCLUDE and + LIB paths. + + - Document the dbm_module argument to the SConsignFile() function. + + From Vincent Risi: + + - Add support for the bcc32, ilink32 and tlib Borland tools. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Supply an error message if the user tries to configure a BuildDir + for a directory that already has one. + + - Remove documentation of the still-unimplemented -e option. + + - Add -H help text listing the legal --debug values. + + - Don't choke if a construction variable is a non-string value. + + - Build Type Libraries in the target directory, not the source + directory. + + - Add an appendix to the User's Guide showing how to accomplish + various common tasks in Python. + + From Greg Spencer: + + - Add support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 (version 7.1). + + - Evaluate $MSVSPROJECTSUFFIX and $MSVSSOLUTIONSUFFIX when the Builder + is invoked, not when the tool is initialized. + + From Christoph Wiedemann: + + - When compiling Qt, make sure the moc_*.cc files are compiled using + the flags from the environment used to specify the target, not + the environment that first has the Qt Builders attached. + + + +RELEASE 0.94 - Fri, 07 Nov 2003 05:29:48 -0600 + + From Hartmut Goebel: + + - Add several new types of canned functions to help create options: + BoolOption(), EnumOption(), ListOption(), PackageOption(), + PathOption(). + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix use of CPPDEFINES with C++ source files. + + - Fix env.Append() when the operand is an object with a __cmp__() + method (like a Scanner instance). + + - Fix subclassing the Environment and Scanner classes. + + - Add BUILD_TARGETS, COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS and DEFAULT_TARGETS variables. + + From Steve Leblanc: + + - SGI fixes: Fix C++ compilation, add a separate Tool/sgic++.py module. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Fix how the man page un-indents after examples in some browsers. + + From Vincent Risi: + + - Fix the C and C++ tool specifications for AIX. + + + +RELEASE 0.93 - Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:26:55 -0500 + + From J.T. Conklin: + + - On POSIX, execute commands with the more modern os.spawnvpe() + function, if it's available. + + - Scan .S, .spp and .SPP files for C preprocessor dependencies. + + - Refactor the Job.Parallel() class to use a thread pool without a + condition variable. This improves parallel build performance and + handles keyboard interrupts properly when -j is used. + + From Charles Crain: + + - Add support for a JARCHDIR variable to control changing to a + directory using the jar -C option. + + - Add support for detecting Java manifest files when using jar, + and specifying them using the jar m flag. + + - Fix some Python 2.2 specific things in various tool modules. + + - Support directories as build sources, so that a rebuild of a target + can be triggered if anything underneath the directory changes. + + - Have the scons.bat and scons.py files look for the SCons modules + in site-packages as well. + + From Christian Engel: + + - Support more flexible inclusion of separate C and C++ compilers. + + - Use package management tools on AIX and Solaris to find where + the comilers are installed, and what version they are. + + - Add support for CCVERSION and CXXVERSION variables for a number + of C and C++ compilers. + + From Sergey Fogel: + + - Add test cases for the new capabilities to run bibtex and to rerun + latex as needed. + + From Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve: + + - Accomodate anydbm modules that don't have a sync() method. + + - Allow SConsignFile() to take an argument specifying the DBM + module to be used. + + From Stephen Kennedy: + + - Add support for a configurable global .sconsign.dbm file which + can be used to avoid cluttering each directory with an individual + .sconsign file. + + From John Johnson: + + - Fix (re-)scanning of dependencies in generated or installed + header files. + + From Steven Knight: + + - The -Q option suppressed too many messages; fix it so that it only + suppresses the Reading/Building messages. + + - Support #include when there's no space before the opening quote + or angle bracket. + + - Accomodate alphanumeric version strings in EnsurePythonVersion(). + + - Support arbitrary expansion of construction variables within + file and directory arguments to Builder calls and Environment methods. + + - Add Environment-method versions of the following global functions: + Action(), AddPostAction(), AddPreAction(), Alias(), Builder(), + BuildDir(), CacheDir(), Clean(), Configure(), Default(), + EnsurePythonVersion(), EnsureSConsVersion(), Environment(), + Exit(), Export(), FindFile(), GetBuildPath(), GetOption(), Help(), + Import(), Literal(), Local(), Platform(), Repository(), Scanner(), + SConscriptChdir(), SConsignFile(), SetOption(), SourceSignatures(), + Split(), TargetSignatures(), Tool(), Value(). + + - Add the following global functions that correspond to the same-named + Environment methods: AlwaysBuild(), Command(), Depends(), Ignore(), + Install(), InstallAs(), Precious(), SideEffect() and SourceCode(). + + - Add the following global functions that correspond to the default + Builder methods supported by SCons: CFile(), CXXFile(), DVI(), Jar(), + Java(), JavaH(), Library(), M4(), MSVSProject(), Object(), PCH(), + PDF(), PostScript(), Program(), RES(), RMIC(), SharedLibrary(), + SharedObject(), StaticLibrary(), StaticObject(), Tar(), TypeLibrary() + and Zip(). + + - Rearrange the man page to show construction environment methods and + global functions in the same list, and to explain the difference. + + - Alphabetize the explanations of the builder methods in the man page. + + - Rename the Environment.Environment class to Enviroment.Base. + Allow the wrapping interface to extend an Environment by using its own + subclass of Environment.Base and setting a new Environment.Environment + variable as the calling entry point. + + - Deprecate the ParseConfig() global function in favor of a same-named + construction environment method. + + - Allow the Environment.WhereIs() method to take explicit path and + pathext arguments (like the underlying SCons.Util.WhereIs() function). + + - Remove the long-obsolete {Get,Set}CommandHandler() functions. + + - Enhance env.Append() to suppress null values when appropriate. + + - Fix ParseConfig() so it works regardless of initial construction + variable values. + + Extend CheckHeader(), CheckCHeader(), CheckCXXHeader() and + CheckLibWithHeader() to accept a list of header files that will be + #included in the test. The last one in the list is assumed to be + the one being checked for. (Prototype code contributed by Gerard + Patel and Niall Douglas). + + - Supply a warning when -j is used and threading isn't built in to + the current version of Python. + + - First release of the User's Guide (finally, and despite a lot + of things still missing from it...). + + From Clark McGrew: + + - Generalize the action for .tex files so that it will decide whether + a file is TeX or LaTeX, check the .aux output to decide if it should + run bibtex, and check the .log output to re-run LaTeX if needed. + + From Bram Moolenaar: + + - Split the non-SCons-specific functionality from SConf.py to a new, + re-usable Conftest.py module. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Allow a directory to be the target or source or dependency of a + Depends(), Ignore(), Precious() or SideEffect() call. + + From Gerard Patel: + + - Use the %{_mandir} macro when building our RPM package. + + From Marko Rauhamaa: + + - Have the closing message say "...terminated because of errors" if + there were any. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - On Win32 systems, only use "rm" to delete files if Cygwin is being + used. ("rm" doesn't understand Win32-format path names.) + + From Christoph Wiedemann: + + - Fix test/SWIG.py to find the Python include directory in all cases. + + - Fix a bug in detection of Qt installed on the local system. + + - Support returning Python 2.3 BooleanType values from Configure checks. + + - Provide an error message if someone mistakenly tries to call a + Configure check from within a Builder function. + + - Support calling a Builder when a Configure context is still open. + + - Handle interrupts better by eliminating all try:-except: blocks + which caught any and all exceptions, including KeyboardInterrupt. + + - Add a --duplicate= option to control how files are duplicated. + + + +RELEASE 0.92 - Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:45:28 -0500 + + From Charles Crain and Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Fix Tool import problems with the Intel and PharLap linkers. + + From Steven Knight + + - Refactor the DictCmdGenerator class to be a Selector subclass. + + - Allow the DefaultEnvironment() function to take arguments and pass + them to instantiation of the default construction environment. + + - Update the Debian package so it uses Python 2.2 and more closely + resembles the currently official Debian packaging info. + + From Gerard Patel + + - When the yacc -d flag is used, take the .h file base name from the + target .c file, not the source (matching what yacc does). + + + +RELEASE 0.91 - Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:00:44 -0500 + + From Chad Austin: + + - Support specifying a list of tools when calling Environment.Copy(). + + - Give a Value Nodes a timestamp of the system time when they're + created, so they'll work when using timestamp-based signatures. + + - Add a DefaultEnvironment() function that only creates a default + environment on-demand (for fetching source files, e.g.). + + - Portability fix for test/M4.py. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Tighten up the scons -H help output. + + - When the input yacc file ends in .yy and the -d flag is specified, + recognize that a .hpp file (not a .h file) will be created. + + - Make builder prefixes work correctly when deducing a target + from a source file name in another directory. + + - Documentation fixes: typo in the man page; explain up-front about + not propagating the external environment. + + - Use "cvs co -d" instead of "cvs co -p >" when checking out something + from CVS with a specified module name. This avoids zero-length + files when there is a checkout error. + + - Add an "sconsign" script to print the contents of .sconsign files. + + - Speed up maintaining the various lists of Node children by using + dictionaries to avoid "x in list" searches. + + - Cache the computed list of Node children minus those being Ignored + so it's only calculated once. + + - Fix use of the --cache-show option when building a Program() + (or using any other arbitrary action) by making sure all Action + instances have strfunction() methods. + + - Allow the source of Command() to be a directory. + + - Better error handling of things like raw TypeErrors in SConscripts. + + - When installing using "setup.py install --prefix=", suppress the + distutils warning message about adding the (incorrect) library + directory to your search path. + + - Correct the spelling of the "validater" option to "validator." + Add a DeprecatedWarning when the old spelling is used. + + - Allow a Builder's emitter to be a dictionary that maps source file + suffixes to emitter functions, using the suffix of the first file + in the source list to pick the right one. + + - Refactor the creation of the Program, *Object and *Library Builders + so that they're moved out of SCons.Defaults and created on demand. + + - Don't split SConscript file names on white space. + + - Document the SConscript function's "dirs" and "name" keywords. + + - Remove the internal (and superfluous) SCons.Util.argmunge() function. + + - Add /TP to the default CXXFLAGS for msvc, so it can compile all + of the suffixes we use as C++ files. + + - Allow the "prefix" and "suffix" attributes of a Builder to be + callable objects that return generated strings, or dictionaries + that map a source file suffix to the right prefix/suffix. + + - Support a MAXLINELINELENGTH construction variable on Win32 systems + to control when a temporary file is used for long command lines. + + - Make how we build .rpm packages not depend on the installation + locations from the distutils being used. + + - When deducing a target Node, create it directly from the first + source Node, not by trying to create the right string to pass to + arg2nodes(). + + - Add support for SWIG. + + From Bram Moolenaar: + + - Test portability fixes for FreeBSD. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Report the target being built in error messages when building + multiple sources from different extensions, or when the target file + extension can't be deduced, or when we don't have an action for a + file suffix. + + - Provide helpful error messages when the arguments to env.Install() + are incorrect. + + - Fix the value returned by the Node.prevsiginfo() method to conform + to a previous change when checking whether a node is current. + + - Supply a stack trace if the Taskmaster catches an exception. + + - When using a temporary file for a long link line on Win32 systems, + (also) print the command line that is being executed through the + temporary file. + + - Initialize the LIB environment variable when using the Intel + compiler (icl). + + - Documentation fixes: better explain the AlwaysBuild() function. + + From Laurent Pelecq: + + - When the -debug=pdb option is specified, use pdb.Pdb().runcall() to + call pdb directly, don't call Python recursively. + + From Ben Scott: + + - Add support for a platform-independent CPPDEFINES variable. + + From Christoph Wiedemann: + + - Have the g++ Tool actually use g++ in preference to c++. + + - Have the gcc Tool actually use gcc in preference to cc. + + - Add a gnutools.py test of the GNU tool chain. + + - Be smarter about linking: use $CC by default and $CXX only if we're + linking with any C++ objects. + + - Avoid SCons hanging when a piped command has a lot of output to read. + + - Add QT support for preprocessing .ui files into .c files. + + + +RELEASE 0.90 - Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:24:52 -0500 + + From Chad Austin: + + - Fix the _concat() documentation, and add a test for it. + + - Portability fixes for non-GNU versions of lex and yacc. + + From Matt Balvin: + + - Fix handling of library prefixes when the subdirectory matches + the prefix. + + From Timothee Bessett: + + - Add an M4 Builder. + + From Charles Crain: + + - Use '.lnk' as the suffix on the temporary file for linking long + command lines (necessary for the Phar Lap linkloc linker). + + - Save non-string Options values as their actual type. + + - Save Options string values that contain a single quote correctly. + + - Save any Options values that are changed from the default + Environment values, not just ones changed on the command line or in + an Options file. + + - Make closing the Options file descriptor exception-safe. + + From Steven Knight: + + - SCons now enforces (with an error) that construction variables + must have the same form as valid Python identifiers. + + - Fix man page bugs: remove duplicate AddPostAction() description; + document no_import_lib; mention that CPPFLAGS does not contain + $_CPPINCFLAGS; mention that F77FLAGS does not contain $_F77INCFLAGS; + mention that LINKFLAGS and SHLINKFLAGS contains neither $_LIBFLAGS + nor $_LIBDIRFLAGS. + + - Eliminate a dependency on the distutils.fancy_getopt module by + copying and pasting its wrap_text() function directly. + + - Make the Script.Options() subclass match the underlying base class + implementation. + + - When reporting a target is up to date, quote the target like make + (backquote-quote) instead of with double quotes. + + - Fix handling of ../* targets when using -U, -D or -u. + + From Steve Leblanc: + + - Don't update the .sconsign files when run with -n. + + From Gary Oberbrunner: + + - Add support for the Intel C Compiler (icl.exe). + + From Anthony Roach + + - Fix Import('*'). + + From David Snopek + + - Fix use of SConf in paths with white space in them. + + - Add CheckFunc and CheckType functionality to SConf. + + - Fix use of SConf with Builders that return a list of nodes. + + From David Snopek and Christoph Wiedemann + + - Fix use of the SConf subsystem with SConscriptChdir(). + + From Greg Spencer + + - Check for the existence of MS Visual Studio on disk before using it, + to avoid getting fooled by leftover junk in the registry. + + - Add support for MSVC++ .NET. + + - Add support for MS Visual Studio project files (DSP, DSW, + SLN and VCPROJ files). + + From Christoph Wiedemann + + - SConf now works correctly when the -n and -q options are used. + + + +RELEASE 0.14 - Wed, 21 May 2003 05:16:32 -0500 + + From Chad Austin: + + - Use .dll (not .so) for shared libraries on Cygwin; use -fPIC + when compiling them. + + - Use 'rm' to remove files under Cygwin. + + - Add a PLATFORM variable to construction environments. + + - Remove the "platform" argument from tool specifications. + + - Propogate PYTHONPATH when running the regression tests so distutils + can be found in non-standard locations. + + - Using MSVC long command-line linking when running Cygwin. + + - Portability fixes for a lot of tests. + + - Add a Value Node class for dependencies on in-core Python values. + + From Allen Bierbaum: + + - Pass an Environment to the Options validator method, and + add an Options.Save() method. + + From Steve Christensen: + + - Add an optional sort function argument to the GenerateHelpText() + Options function. + + - Evaluate the "varlist" variables when computing the signature of a + function action. + + From Charles Crain: + + - Parse the source .java files for class names (including inner class + names) to figure out the target .class files that will be created. + + - Make Java support work with Repositories and SConscriptChdir(0). + + - Pass Nodes, not strings, to Builder emitter functions. + + - Refactor command-line interpolation and signature calculation + so we can use real Node attributes. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Add Java support (javac, javah, jar and rmic). + + - Propagate the external SYSTEMROOT environment variable into ENV on + Win32 systems, so external commands that use sockets will work. + + - Add a .posix attribute to PathList expansions. + + - Check out CVS source files using POSIX path names (forward slashes + as separators) even on Win32. + + - Add Node.clear() and Node.FS.Entry.clear() methods to wipe out a + Node's state, allowing it to be re-evaluated by continuous + integration build interfaces. + + - Change the name of the Set{Build,Content}SignatureType() functions + to {Target,Source}Signatures(). Deprecate the old names but support + them for backwards compatibility. + + - Add internal SCons.Node.FS.{Dir,File}.Entry() methods. + + - Interpolate the null string if an out-of-range subscript is used + for a construction variable. + + - Fix the internal Link function so that it properly links or copies + files in subsidiary BuildDir directories. + + - Refactor the internal representation of a single execution instance + of an action to eliminate redundant signature calculations. + + - Eliminate redundant signature calculations for Nodes. + + - Optimize out calling hasattr() before accessing attributes. + + - Say "Cleaning targets" (not "Building...") when the -c option is + used. + + From Damyan Pepper: + + - Quote the "Entering directory" message like Make. + + From Stefan Reichor: + + - Add support for using Ghostscript to convert Postscript to PDF files. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Add a standalone "Alias" function (separate from an Environment). + + - Make Export() work for local variables. + + - Support passing a dictionary to Export(). + + - Support Import('*') to import everything that's been Export()ed. + + - Fix an undefined exitvalmap on Win32 systems. + + - Support new SetOption() and GetOption() functions for setting + various command-line options from with an SConscript file. + + - Deprecate the old SetJobs() and GetJobs() functions in favor of + using the new generic {Set,Get}Option() functions. + + - Fix a number of tests that searched for a Fortran compiler using the + external PATH instead of what SCons would use. + + - Fix the interaction of SideEffect() and BuildDir() so that (for + example) PDB files get put correctly in a BuildDir(). + + From David Snopek: + + - Contribute the "Autoscons" code for Autoconf-like checking for + the existence of libraries, header files and the like. + + - Have the Tool() function add the tool name to the $TOOLS + construction variable. + + From Greg Spencer: + + - Support the C preprocessor #import statement. + + - Allow the SharedLibrary() Builder on Win32 systems to be able to + register a newly-built dll using regsvr32. + + - Add a Builder for Windows type library (.tlb) files from IDL files. + + - Add an IDL scanner. + + - Refactor the Fortran, C and IDL scanners to share common logic. + + - Add .srcpath and .srcdir attributes to $TARGET and $SOURCE. + + From Christoph Wiedemann: + + - Integrate David Snopek's "Autoscons" code as the new SConf + configuration subsystem, including caching of values between + runs (using normal SCons dependency mechanisms), tests, and + documentation. + + + +RELEASE 0.13 - Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:22:00 -0600 + + From Charles Crain: + + - Fix a bug when BuildDir(duplicate=0) is used and SConscript + files are called from within other SConscript files. + + - Support (older) versions of Perforce which don't set the Windows + registry. + + + +RELEASE 0.12 - Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:52:09 -0600 + + From Charles Crain: + + - Added support for the Perforce source code management system. + + - Fix str(Node.FS) so that it returns a path relative to the calling + SConscript file's directory, not the top-level directory. + + - Added support for a separate src_dir argument to SConscript() + that allows explicit specification of where the source files + for an SConscript file can be found. + + - Support more easily re-usable flavors of command generators by + calling callable variables when strings are expanded. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Added an INSTALL construction variable that can be set to a function + to control how the Install() and InstallAs() Builders install files. + The default INSTALL function now copies, not links, files. + + - Remove deprecated features: the "name" argument to Builder objects, + and the Environment.Update() method. + + - Add an Environment.SourceCode() method to support fetching files + from source code systems. Add factory methods that create Builders + to support BitKeeper, CVS, RCS, and SCCS. Add support for fetching + files from RCS or SCCS transparently (like GNU Make). + + - Make the internal to_String() function more efficient. + + - Make the error message the same as other build errors when there's a + problem unlinking a target file in preparation for it being built. + + - Make TARGET, TARGETS, SOURCE and SOURCES reserved variable names and + warn if the user tries to set them in a construction environment. + + - Add support for Tar and Zip files. + + - Better documentation of the different ways to export variables to a + subsidiary SConscript file. Fix documentation bugs in a tools + example, places that still assumed SCons split strings on white + space, and typos. + + - Support fetching arbitrary files from the TARGETS or SOURCES lists + (e.g. ${SOURCES[2]}) when calculating the build signature of a + command. + + - Don't silently swallow exceptions thrown by Scanners (or other + exceptions while finding a node's dependent children). + + - Push files to CacheDir() before calling the superclass built() + method (which may clear the build signature as part of clearing + cached implicit dependencies, if the file has a source scanner). + (Bug reported by Jeff Petkau.) + + - Raise an internal error if we attempt to push a file to CacheDir() + with a build signature of None. + + - Add an explicit Exit() function for terminating early. + + - Change the documentation to correctly describe that the -f option + doesn't change to the directory in which the specified file lives. + + - Support changing directories locally with SConscript directory + path names relative to any SConstruct file specified with -f. + This allows you to build in another directory by simply changing + there and pointing at the SConstruct file in another directory. + + - Change the default SConscriptChdir() behavior to change to the + SConscript directory while it's being read. + + - Fix an exception thrown when the -U option was used with no + Default() target specified. + + - Fix -u so that it builds things in corresponding build directories + when used in a source directory. + + From Lachlan O'Dea: + + - Add SharedObject() support to the masm tool. + + - Fix WhereIs() to return normalized paths. + + From Jeff Petkau: + + - Don't copy a built file to a CacheDir() if it's already there. + + - Avoid partial copies of built files in a CacheDir() by copying + to a temporary file and renaming. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Fix incorrect dependency-cycle errors when an Aliased source doesn't + exist. + + + +RELEASE 0.11 - Tue, 11 Feb 2003 05:24:33 -0600 + + From Chad Austin: + + - Add support for IRIX and the SGI MIPSPro tool chain. + + - Support using the MSVC tool chain when running Cygwin Python. + + From Michael Cook: + + - Avoid losing signal bits in the exit status from a command, + helping terminate builds on interrupt (CTRL+C). + + From Charles Crain: + + - Added new AddPreAction() and AddPostAction() functions that support + taking additional actions before or after building specific targets. + + - Add support for the PharLap ETS tool chain. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Allow Python function Actions to specify a list of construction + variables that should be included in the Action's signature. + + - Allow libraries in the LIBS variable to explicitly include the prefix + and suffix, even when using the GNU linker. + (Bug reported by Neal Becker.) + + - Use DOS-standard CR-LF line endings in the scons.bat file. + (Bug reported by Gary Ruben.) + + - Doc changes: Eliminate description of deprecated "name" keyword + argument from Builder definition (reported by Gary Ruben). + + - Support using env.Append() on BUILDERS (and other dictionaries). + (Bug reported by Bj=F6rn Bylander.) + + - Setting the BUILDERS construction variable now properly clears + the previous Builder attributes from the construction Environment. + (Bug reported by Bj=F6rn Bylander.) + + - Fix adding a prefix to a file when the target isn't specified. + (Bug reported by Esa Ilari Vuokko.) + + - Clean up error messages from problems duplicating into read-only + BuildDir directories or into read-only files. + + - Add a CommandAction.strfunction() method, and add an "env" argument + to the FunctionAction.strfunction() method, so that all Action + objects have strfunction() methods, and the functions for building + and returning a string both take the same arguments. + + - Add support for new CacheDir() functionality to share derived files + between builds, with related options --cache-disable, --cache-force, + and --cache-show. + + - Change the default behavior when no targets are specified to build + everything in the current directory and below (like Make). This + can be disabled by specifying Default(None) in an SConscript. + + - Revamp SCons installation to fix a case-sensitive installation + on Win32 systems, and to add SCons-specific --standard-lib, + --standalone-lib, and --version-lib options for easier user + control of where the libraries get installed. + + - Fix the ability to directly import and use Platform and Tool modules + that have been implicitly imported into an Environment(). + + - Add support for allowing an embedding interface to annotate a node + when it's created. + + - Extend the SConscript() function to accept build_dir and duplicate + keyword arguments that function like a BuildDir() call. + + From Steve Leblanc: + + - Fix the output of -c -n when directories are involved, so it + matches -c. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Use a different shared object suffix (.os) when using gcc so shared + and static objects can exist side-by-side in the same directory. + + - Allow the same object files on Win32 to be linked into either + shared or static libraries. + + - Cache implicit cache values when using --implicit-cache. + + + +RELEASE 0.10 - Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:11:46 -0600 + + From Derrick 'dman' Hudson: + + - Support Repositories on other file systems by symlinking or + copying files when hard linking won't work. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Remove Python bytecode (*.pyc) files from the scons-local packages. + + - Have FunctionActions print a description of what they're doing + (a representation of the Python call). + + - Fix the Install() method so that, like other actions, it prints + what would have happened when the -n option is used. + + - Don't create duplicate source files in a BuildDir when the -n + option is used. + + - Refactor the Scanner interface to eliminate unnecessary Scanner + calls and make it easier to write efficient scanners. + + - Added a "recursive" flag to Scanner creation that specifies the + Scanner should be invoked recursively on dependency files returned + by the scanner. + + - Significant performance improvement from using a more efficient + check, throughout the code, for whether a Node has a Builder. + + - Fix specifying only the source file to MultiStepBuilders such as + the Program Builder. (Bug reported by Dean Bair.) + + - Fix an exception when building from a file with the same basename as + the subdirectory in which it lives. (Bug reported by Gerard Patel.) + + - Fix automatic deduction of a target file name when there are + multiple source files specified; the target is now deduced from just + the first source file in the list. + + - Documentation fixes: better initial explanation of SConscript files; + fix a misformatted "table" in the StaticObject explanation. + + From Steven Knight and Steve Leblanc: + + - Fix the -c option so it will remove symlinks. + + From Steve Leblanc: + + - Add a Clean() method to support removing user-specified targets + when using the -c option. + + - Add a development script for running SCons through PyChecker. + + - Clean up things found by PyChecker (mostly unnecessary imports). + + - Add a script to use HappyDoc to create HTML class documentation. + + From Lachlan O'Dea: + + - Make the Environment.get() method return None by default. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Add SetJobs() and GetJobs() methods to allow configuration of the + number of default jobs (still overridden by -j). + + - Convert the .sconsign file format from ASCII to a pickled Python + data structure. + + - Error message cleanups: Made consistent the format of error + messages (now all start with "scons: ***") and warning messages (now + all start with "scons: warning:"). Caught more cases with the "Do + not know how to build" error message. + + - Added support for the MinGW tool chain. + + - Added a --debug=includes option. + + + +RELEASE 0.09 - Thu, 5 Dec 2002 04:48:25 -0600 + + From Chad Austin: + + - Add a Prepend() method to Environments, to append values to + the beginning of construction variables. + + From Matt Balvin: + + - Add long command-line support to the "lib" Tool (Microsoft library + archiver), too. + + From Charles Crain: + + - Allow $$ in a string to be passed through as $. + + - Support file names with odd characters in them. + + - Add support for construction variable substition on scanner + directories (in CPPPATH, F77PATH, LIBPATH, etc.). + + From Charles Crain and Steven Knight: + + - Add Repository() functionality, including the -Y option. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix auto-deduction of target names so that deduced targets end + up in the same subdirectory as the source. + + - Don't remove source files specified on the command line! + + - Suport the Intel Fortran Compiler (ifl.exe). + + - Supply an error message if there are no command-line or + Default() targets specified. + + - Fix the ASPPCOM values for the GNU assembler. + (Bug reported by Brett Polivka.) + + - Fix an exception thrown when a Default() directory was specified + when using the -U option. + + - Issue a warning when -c can't remove a target. + + - Eliminate unnecessary Scanner calls by checking for the + existence of a file before scanning it. (This adds a generic + hook to check an arbitrary condition before scanning.) + + - Add explicit messages to tell when we're "Reading SConscript files + ...," "done reading SConscript files," "Building targets," and + "done building targets." Add a -Q option to supress these. + + - Add separate $SHOBJPREFIX and $SHOBJSUFFIX construction variables + (by default, the same as $OBJPREFIX and $OBJSUFFIX). + + - Add Make-like error messages when asked to build a source file, + and before trying to build a file that doesn't have all its source + files (including when an invalid drive letter is used on WIN32). + + - Add an scons-local-{version} package (in both .tar.gz and .zip + flavors) to help people who want to ship SCons as a stand-alone + build tool in their software packages. + + - Prevent SCons from unlinking files in certain situations when + the -n option is used. + + - Change the name of Tool/lib.py to Tool/mslib.py. + + From Steven Knight and Anthony Roach: + + - Man page: document the fact that Builder calls return Node objects. + + From Steve LeBlanc: + + - Refactor option processing to use our own version of Greg Ward's + Optik module, modified to run under Python 1.5.2. + + - Add a ParseConfig() command to modify an environment based on + parsing output from a *-config command. + + From Jeff Petkau: + + - Fix interpretation of '#/../foo' on Win32 systems. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Fixed use of command lines with spaces in their arguments, + and use of Nodes with spaces in their string representation. + + - Make access and modification times of files in a BuildDir match + the source file, even when hard linking isn't available. + + - Make -U be case insensitive on Win32 systems. + + - Issue a warning and continue when finding a corrupt .sconsign file. + + - Fix using an alias as a dependency of a target so that if one of the + alias' dependencies gets rebuilt, the resulting target will, too. + + - Fix differently ordered targets causing unnecessary rebuilds + on case insensitive systems. + + - Use os.system() to execute external commands whenever the "env" + utility is available, which is much faster than fork()/exec(), + and fixes the -j option on several platforms. + + - Fix use of -j with multiple targets. + + - Add an Options() object for friendlier accomodation of command- + line arguments. + + - Add support for Microsoft VC++ precompiled header (.pch) files, + debugger (.pdb) files, and resource (.rc) files. + + - Don't compute the $_CPPINCFLAGS, $_F77INCFLAGS, $_LIBFLAGS and + $_LIBDIRFLAGS variables each time a command is executed, define + them so they're computed only as needed. Add a new _concat + function to the Environment that allows people to define their + own similar variables. + + - Fix dependency scans when $LIBS is overridden. + + - Add EnsurePythonVersion() and EnsureSConsVersion() functions. + + - Fix the overly-verbose stack trace on ListBuilder build errors. + + - Add a SetContentSignatureType() function, allowing use of file + timestamps instead of MD5 signatures. + + - Make -U and Default('source') fail gracefully. + + - Allow the File() and Dir() methods to take a path-name string as + the starting directory, in addition to a Dir object. + + - Allow the command handler to be selected via the SPAWN, SHELL + and ESCAPE construction variables. + + - Allow construction variables to be overridden when a Builder + is called. + + From sam th: + + - Dynamically check for the existence of utilities with which to + initialize Environments by default. + + + +RELEASE 0.08 - Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:08:51 -0500 + + From Charles Crain: + + - Fixed a bug with relative CPPPATH dirs when using BuildDir(). + (Bug reported by Bob Summerwill.) + + - Added a warnings framework and a --warn option to enable or + disable warnings. + + - Make the C scanner warn users if files referenced by #include + directives cannot be found and --warn=dependency is specified. + + - The BUILDERS construction variable should now be a dictionary + that maps builder names to actions. Existing uses of lists, + and the Builder name= keyword argument, generate warnings + about use of deprecated features. + + - Removed the "shared" keyword argument from the Object and + Library builders. + + - Added separated StaticObject, SharedObject, StaticLibrary and + SharedLibrary builders. Made Object and Library synonyms for + StaticObject and StaticLibrary, respectively. + + - Add LIBS and LIBPATH dependencies for shared libraries. + + - Removed support for the prefix, suffix and src_suffix arguments + to Builder() to be callable functions. + + - Fix handling file names with multiple dots. + + - Allow a build directory to be outside of the SConstruct tree. + + - Add a FindFile() function that searches for a file node with a + specified name. + + - Add $CPPFLAGS to the shared-object command lines for g++ and gcc. + + From Charles Crain and Steven Knight: + + - Add a "tools=" keyword argument to Environment instantiation, + and a separate Tools() method, for more flexible specification + of tool-specific environment changes. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Add a "platform=" keyword argument to Environment instantiation, + and a separate Platform() method, for more flexible specification + of platform-specific environment changes. + + - Updated README instructions and setup.py code to catch an + installation failure from not having distutils installed. + + - Add descriptions to the -H help text for -D, -u and -U so + people can tell them apart. + + - Remove the old feature of automatically splitting strings + of file names on white space. + + - Add a dependency Scanner for native Fortran "include" statements, + using a new "F77PATH" construction variable. + + - Fix C #include scanning to detect file names with characters like + '-' in them. + + - Add more specific version / build output to the -v option. + + - Add support for the GNU as, Microsoft masm, and nasm assemblers. + + - Allow the "target" argument to a Builder call to be omitted, in + which case the target(s) are deduced from the source file(s) and the + Builder's specified suffix. + + - Add a tar archive builder. + + - Add preliminary support for the OS/2 Platform, including the icc + and ilink Tools. + + From Jeff Petkau: + + - Fix --implicit-cache if the scanner returns an empty list. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Add a "multi" keyword argument to Builder creation that specifies + it's okay to call the builder multiple times for a target. + + - Set a "multi" on Aliases so multiple calls will append to an Alias. + + - Fix emitter functions' use of path names when using BuildDir or + in subdirectories. + + - Fix --implicit-cache causing redundant rebuilds when the header + file list changed. + + - Fix --implicit-cache when a file has no implicit dependencies and + its source is generated. + + - Make the drive letters on Windows always be the same case, so that + changes in the case of drive letters don't cause a rebuild. + + - Fall back to importing the SCons.TimeStamp module if the SCons.MD5 + module can't be imported. + + - Fix interrupt handling to guarantee that a single interrupt will + halt SCons both when using -j and not. + + - Fix .sconsign signature storage so that output files of one build + can be safely used as input files to another build. + + - Added a --debug=time option to print SCons execution times. + + - Print an error message if a file can't be unlinked before being + built, rather than just silently terminating the build. + + - Add a SideEffect() method that can be used to tell the build + engine that a given file is created as a side effect of building + a target. A file can be specified as a side effect of more than + one build comand, in which case the commands will not be executed + simultaneously. + + - Significant performance gains from not using our own version of + the inefficient stock os.path.splitext() method, caching source + suffix computation, code cleanup in MultiStepBuilder.__call__(), + and replicating some logic in scons_subst(). + + - Add --implicit-deps-changed and --implicit-deps-unchanged options. + + - Add a GetLaunchDir() function. + + - Add a SetBuildSignatureType() function. + + From Zed Shaw: + + - Add an Append() method to Environments, to append values to + construction variables. + + - Change the name of Update() to Replace(). Keep Update() as a + deprecated synonym, at least for now. + + From Terrel Shumway: + + - Use a $PYTHON construction variable, initialized to sys.executable, + when using Python to build parts of the SCons packages. + + - Use sys.prefix, not sys.exec_prefix, to find pdb.py. + + + +RELEASE 0.07 - Thu, 2 May 2002 13:37:16 -0500 + + From Chad Austin: + + - Changes to build SCons packages on IRIX (and other *NIces). + + - Don't create a directory Node when a file already exists there, + and vice versa. + + - Add 'dirs' and 'names' keyword arguments to SConscript for + easier specification of subsidiary SConscript files. + + From Charles Crain: + + - Internal cleanup of environment passing to function Actions. + + - Builders can now take arbitrary keyword arguments to create + attributes to be passed to: command generator functions, + FunctionAction functions, Builder emitter functions (below), + and prefix/suffix generator functions (below). + + - Command generator functions can now return ANYTHING that can be + converted into an Action (a function, a string, a CommandGenerator + instance, even an ActionBase instance). + + - Actions now call get_contents() with the actual target and source + nodes used for the build. + + - A new DictCmdGenerator class replaces CompositeBuilder to support + more flexible Builder behavior internally. + + - Builders can now take an emitter= keyword argument. An emitter + is a function that takes target, source, and env argument, then + return a 2-tuple of (new sources, new targets). The emitter is + called when the Builder is __call__'ed, allowing a user to modify + source and target lists. + + - The prefix, suffix and src_suffix Builder arguments now take a + callable as well a string. The callable is passed the Environment + and any extra Builder keyword arguments and is expected to return + the appropriate prefix or suffix. + + - CommandActions can now be a string, a list of command + argument + strings, or a list of commands (strings or lists). + + - Added shared library support. The Object and Library Builders now + take a "shared=1" keyword argument to specify that a shared object + or shared library should be built. It is an error to try to build + static objects into a shared library or vice versa. + + - Win32 support for .def files has been added. Added the Win32-specific + construction variables $WIN32DEFPREFIX, $WIN32DEFSUFFIX, + $WIN32DLLPREFIX and $WIN32IMPLIBPREFIX. When building a .dll, + the new construction variable $WIN32_INSERT_DEF, controls whether + the appropriately-named .def file is inserted into the target + list (if not already present). A .lib file is always added to + a Library build if not present in the list of targets. + + - ListBuilder now passes all targets to the action, not just the first. + + - Fix so that -c now deletes generated yacc .h files. + + - Builder actions and emitter functions can now be initialized, through + construction variables, to things other than strings. + + - Make top-relative '#/dir' lookups work like '#dir'. + + - Fix for relative CPPPATH directories in subsidiary SConscript files + (broken in 0.06). + + - Add a for_signature argument to command generators, so that + generators that need to can return distinct values for the + command signature and for executing the command. + + From Alex Jacques: + + - Create a better scons.bat file from a py2bat.py script on the Python + mailing list two years ago (modeled after pl2bat.pl). + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix so that -c -n does *not* remove the targets! + + - Man page: Add a hierarchical libraries + Program example. + + - Support long MSVC linker command lines through a builder action + that writes to a temporary file and uses the magic MSVC "link @file" + argument syntax if the line is longer than 2K characters. + + - Fix F77 command-line options on Win32 (use /Fo instead of -o). + + - Use the same action to build from .c (lower case) and .C (upper + case) files on case-insensitive systems like Win32. + + - Support building a PDF file directly from a TeX or LaTeX file + using pdftex or pdflatex. + + - Add a -x option to runtest.py to specify the script being tested. + A -X option indicates it's an executable, not a script to feed + to the Python interpreter. + + - Add a Split() function (identical to SCons.Util.argmunge()) for use + in the next release, when Builders will no longer automatically split + strings on white space. + + From Steve Leblanc: + + - Add the SConscriptChdir() method. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Fix --debug=tree when used with directory targets. + + - Significant internal restructuring of Scanners and Taskmaster. + + - Added new --debug=dtree option. + + - Fixes for --profile option. + + - Performance improvement in construction variable substitution. + + - Implemented caching of content signatures, plus added --max-drift + option to control caching. + + - Implemented caching of dependency signatures, enabled by new + --implicit-cache option. + + - Added abspath construction variable modifier. + + - Added $SOURCE variable as a synonym for $SOURCES[0]. + + - Write out .sconsign files on error or interrupt so intermediate + build results are saved. + + - Change the -U option to -D. Make a new -U that builds just the + targets from the local SConscript file. + + - Fixed use of sys.path so Python modules can be imported from + the SConscript directory. + + - Fix for using Aliases with the -u, -U and -D options. + + - Fix so that Nodes can be passed to SConscript files. + + From Moshe Zadka: + + - Changes for official Debian packaging. + + + +RELEASE 0.06 - Thu, 28 Mar 2002 01:24:29 -0600 + + From Charles Crain: + + - Fix command generators to expand construction variables. + + - Make FunctionAction arguments be Nodes, not strings. + + From Stephen Kennedy: + + - Performance: Use a dictionary, not a list, for a Node's parents. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Add .zip files to the packages we build. + + - Man page: document LIBS, fix a typo, document ARGUMENTS. + + - Added RANLIB and RANLIBFLAGS construction variables. Only use them + in ARCOM if there's a "ranlib" program on the system. + + - Add a configurable CFILESUFFIX for the Builder of .l and .y files + into C files. + + - Add a CXXFile Builder that turns .ll and .yy files into .cc files + (configurable via a CXXFILESUFFIX construction variable). + + - Use the POSIX-standard lex -t flag, not the GNU-specific -o flag. + (Bug reported by Russell Christensen.) + + - Fixed an exception when CPPPATH or LIBPATH is a null string. + (Bug reported by Richard Kiss.) + + - Add a --profile=FILE option to make profiling SCons easier. + + - Modify the new DVI builder to create .dvi files from LaTeX (.ltx + and .latex) files. + + - Add support for Aliases (phony targets). + + - Add a WhereIs() method for searching for path names to executables. + + - Add PDF and PostScript document builders. + + - Add support for compiling Fortran programs from a variety of + suffixes (a la GNU Make): .f, .F, .for, .FOR, .fpp and .FPP + + - Support a CPPFLAGS variable on all default commands that use the + C preprocessor. + + From Steve Leblanc: + + - Add support for the -U option. + + - Allow CPPPATH, LIBPATH and LIBS to be specified as white-space + separated strings. + + - Add a document builder to create .dvi files from TeX (.tex) files. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Fix: Construction variables with values of 0 were incorrectly + interpolated as ''. + + - Support env['VAR'] to fetch construction variable values. + + - Man page: document Precious(). + + + +RELEASE 0.05 - Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:50:03 -0600 + + From Chad Austin: + + - Set PROGSUFFIX to .exe under Cygwin. + + From Charles Crain: + + - Allow a library to specified as a command-line source file, not just + in the LIBS construction variable. + + - Compensate for a bug in os.path.normpath() that returns '' for './' + on WIN32. + + - More performance optimizations: cache #include lines from files, + eliminate unnecessary calls. + + - If a prefix or suffix contains white space, treat the resulting + concatenation as separate arguments. + + - Fix irregularities in the way we fetch DevStudio information from + the Windows registry, and in our registry error handling. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Flush stdout after print so it intermixes correctly with stderr + when redirected. + + - Allow Scanners to return a list of strings, and document how to + write your own Scanners. + + - Look up implicit (scanned) dependencies relative to the directory + of file being scanned. + + - Make writing .sconsign files more robust by first trying to write + to a temp file that gets renamed. + + - Create all of the directories for a list of targets before trying + to build any of the targets. + + - WIN32 portability fixes in tests. + + - Allow the list of variables exported to an SConscript file to be + a UserList, too. + + - Document the overlooked LIBPATH construction variable. + (Bug reported by Eicke Godehardt.) + + - Fix so that Ignore() ignores indirect, implicit dependencies + (included files), not just direct dependencies. + + - Put the man page in the Debian distribution. + + - Run HTML docs through tidy to clean up the HTML (for Konqueror). + + - Add preliminary support for Unicode strings. + + - Efficiency: don't scan dependencies more than once during the + walk of a tree. + + - Fix the -c option so it doesn't stop removing targets if one doesn't + already exist. + (Bug reported by Paul Connell.) + + - Fix the --debug=pdb option when run on Windows NT. + (Bug reported by Paul Connell.) + + - Add support for the -q option. + + From Steve Leblanc: + + - Add support for the -u option. + + - Add .cc and .hh file suffixes to the C Scanner. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Make the scons script return an error code on failures. + + - Add support for using code to generate a command to build a target. + + + +RELEASE 0.04 - Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:09:42 -0600 + + From Charles Crain: + + - Significant performance improvements in the Node.FS and + Scanner subsystems. + + - Fix signatures of binary files on Win32 systems. + + - Allow LIBS and LIBPATH to be strings, not just arrays. + + - Print a traceback if a Python-function builder throws an exception. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fix using a directory as a Default(), and allow Default() to + support white space in file names for strings in arrays. + + - Man page updates: corrected some mistakes, documented various + missing Environment methods, alphabetized the construction + variables and other functions, defined begin and end macros for + the example sections, regularized white space separation, fixed + the use of Export() in the Multiple Variants example. + + - Function action fixes: None is now a successful return value. + Exceptions are now reported. Document function actions. + + - Add 'Action' and 'Scanner' to the global keywords so SConscript + files can use them too. + + - Removed the Wrapper class between Nodes and Walkers. + + - Add examples using Library, LIBS, and LIBPATH. + + - The C Scanner now always returns a sorted list of dependencies + so order changes don't cause unnecessary rebuilds. + + - Strip $(-$) bracketed text from command lines. Use this to + surround $_INCDIRS and $_LIBDIRS so we don't rebuild in response + to changes to -I or -L options. + + - Add the Ignore() method to ignore dependencies. + + - Provide an error message when a nonexistent target is specified + on the command line. + + - Remove targets before building them, and add an Environment + Precious() method to override that. + + - Eliminate redundant calls to the same builder when the target is a + list of targets: Add a ListBuilder class that wraps Builders to + handle lists atomically. Extend the Task class to support building + and updating multiple targets in a single Task. Simplify the + interface between Task and Taskmaster. + + - Add a --debug=pdb option to re-run SCons under the Python debugger. + + - Only compute a build signature once for each node. + + - Changes to our sys.path[] manipulation to support installation into + an arbitrary --prefix value. + + From Steve Leblanc: + + - Add var=value command-line arguments. + + + +RELEASE 0.03 - Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:09:30 -0600 + + From Charles Crain: + + - Performance improvements in the Node.FS and Sig.Calculator classes. + + - Add the InstallAs() method. + + - Execute commands through an external interpreter (sh, cmd.exe, or + command.com) to handle redirection metacharacters. + + - Allow the user to supply a command handler. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Search both /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib for scons directories by + adding them both to sys.path, with whichever is in sys.prefix first. + + - Fix interpreting strings of multiple white-space separated file names + as separate file names, allowing prefixes and suffixes to be appended + to each individually. + + - Refactor to move CompositeBuilder initialization logic from the + factory wrapper to the __init__() method, and allow a Builder to + have both an action and a src_builder (or array of them). + + - Refactor BuilderBase.__call__() to separate Node creation/lookup + from initialization of the Node's builder information. + + - Add a CFile Builder object that supports turning lex (.l) and + yacc (.y) files into .c files. + + - Document: variable interpretation attributes; how to propogate + the user's environment variables to executed commands; how to + build variants in multiple BuildDirs. + + - Collect String, Dict, and List type-checking in common utility + routines so we can accept User{String,Dict,List}s all over. + + - Put the Action factory and classes into their own module. + + - Use one CPlusPlusAction in the Object Builder's action dictionary, + instead of letting it create multiple identical instances. + + - Document the Install() and InstallAs() methods. + + From Steve Leblanc: + + - Require that a Builder be given a name argument, supplying a + useful error message when it isn't. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Add a "duplicate" keyword argument to BuildDir() that can be set + to prevent linking/copying source files into build directories. + + - Add a "--debug=tree" option to print an ASCII dependency tree. + + - Fetch the location of the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler(s) from + the Registry, instead of hard-coding the location. + + - Made Scanner objects take Nodes, not path names. + + - Have the C Scanner cache the #include file names instead of + (re-)scanning the file each time it's called. + + - Created a separate class for parent "nodes" of file system roots, + eliminating the need for separate is-parent-null checks everywhere. + + - Removed defined __hash__() and __cmp() methods from FS.Entry, in + favor of Python's more efficient built-in identity comparisons. + + + +RELEASE 0.02 - Sun, 23 Dec 2001 19:05:09 -0600 + + From Charles Crain: + + - Added the Install(), BuildDir(), and Export() methods. + + - Fix the -C option by delaying setting the top of the FS tree. + + - Avoid putting the directory path on the libraries in the LIBS + construction variable. + + - Added a GetBuildPath() method to return the full path to the + Node for a specified string. + + - Fixed variable substitution in CPPPATH and LIBPATH. + + From Steven Knight: + + - Fixed the version comment in the scons.bat (the UNIX geek used + # instead of @rem). + + - Fix to setup.py so it doesn't require a sys.argv[1] argument. + + - Provide make-like warning message for "command not found" and + similar errors. + + - Added an EXAMPLES section to the man page. + + - Make Default() targets properly relative to their SConscript + file's subdirectory. + + From Anthony Roach: + + - Documented CXXFLAGS, CXXCOM, and CPPPATH. + + - Fixed SCONS_LIB_DIR to work as documented. + + - Made Default() accept Nodes as arguments. + + - Changed Export() to make it easier to use. + + - Added the Import() and Return() methods. + + + +RELEASE 0.01 - Thu Dec 13 19:25:23 CST 2001 + +A brief overview of important functionality available in release 0.01: + + - C and C++ compilation on POSIX and Windows NT. + + - Automatic scanning of C/C++ source files for #include dependencies. + + - Support for building libraries; setting construction variables + allows creation of shared libraries. + + - Library and C preprocessor search paths. + + - File changes detected using MD5 signatures. + + - User-definable Builder objects for building files. + + - User-definable Scanner objects for scanning for dependencies. + + - Parallel build (-j) support. + + - Dependency cycles detected. + + - Linux packages available in RPM and Debian format. + + - Windows installer available. |