Merged revisions 2880-2883,2885-2895 via svnmerge from

Merged revisions 2880-2883,2885-2895 via svnmerge from
http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/branches/core

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  r2885 | stevenknight | 2008-04-18 21:38:59 -0700 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Update troubleshooting appendix for new Taskmaster output.
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  r2886 | bdbaddog | 2008-04-19 15:15:03 -0700 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Fix infinite loop in Fortran tool initialization.
  Bug 2017.
  Steven fixed, I tested.
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  r2887 | garyo | 2008-04-20 17:44:46 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Added this in two sections; simple one when discussing simple builds, and an example in the VariantDir section showing how it still works there.
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  r2888 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:33:01 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Accomodate test/MSVC/msvc.py's reliance on the Windows Platform SDK
  (for now) by making use of the user's %INCLUDE% and %LIB% variables.
  Split some independent embedded subtests into their own test scripts.
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  r2889 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:38:05 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Windows portability fix (line endings).
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  r2890 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:44:24 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Update Windows portion of if:-elif: block for a variable name change.
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  r2891 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:52:41 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  On Windows, escape backslashes on the --interactive command line input,
  so people can build targets in other directories.
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  r2892 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:56:50 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix ripple effects on Windows from redefining how $CXXFLAGS gets
  added to C++ command lines.
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  r2893 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 22:04:50 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Handle a ripple effect from redefining the file() and open() builtin
  functions by explicitly restoring the originals whenever we reset
  the global state between tests.
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  r2894 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 23:17:23 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove by-hand backslash escaping, now that --interactive mode is handling it.
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  r2895 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 23:23:04 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Mention the fix for the Fortran suffix out-of-memory bug
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