RELEASE 0.97 - XXX
+ 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.
+
+ - Fix the intelc.py Tool module to not throw an exception if the
+ only installed version is something other than ia32.
+
From Chad Austin:
- Allow Help() to be called multiple times, appending to the help
- Allow Tools found on a toolpath to import Python modules from
their local directory.
+ - 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.
+
+ - Add a separate MSVSSolution() Builder, with support for the
+ following new construction variables: $MSVSBUILDCOM, $MSVSCLEANCOM,
+ $MSVSENCODING, $MSVSREBUILDCOM, $MSVSSCONS, $MSVSSCONSCOM,
+ $MSVSSCONSFLAGS, $MSVSSCONSCRIPT and $MSVSSOLUTIONCOM.
+
+ From Timothee Besset:
+
+ - Add support for Objective C/C++ .m and .mm file suffixes (for
+ Mac OS X).
+
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.
+ Charles Crain
+
+ - Fix the PharLap linkloc.py module to use target+source arguments
+ when calling env.subst().
+
+ From Matthew Doar:
+
+ - Add support for .lex and .yacc file suffixes for Lex and Yacc files.
+
+ 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 Eric Frias:
- Huge performance improvement: wrap the tuples representing an
check for the build engine in the parent directory of the Python
library directory (/usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib).
+ From Ralph W. Grosse-Kunstleve and Patrick Mezard:
+
+ - Remove unneceesary (and incorrect) SCons.Util strings on some function
+ calls in SCons.Util.
+
+ 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 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
- 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ From Chen Lee:
+
+ - Handle Visual Studio project and solution files in Unicode.
+
+ 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 Sanjoy Mahajan:
+
+ - Correct TeX-related command lines to just $SOURCE, not $SOURCES
+
+ - 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 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 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 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 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 $LATEX multiple times to handle undefined references.
+
From Elliot Murphy:
- Enhance the tests to guarantee persistence of ListOption
values in saved options files.
+ - Supply the help text when -h is used with the -u, -U or -D options.
+
+ From Leanid Nazdrynau:
+
+ - Fix the Java parser's handling of backslashes in strings.
+
+ - Fix the Qt UIC scanner to work with generated .ui files (by using
+ the FindFile() function instead of checking by-hand for the file).
+
From Christian Neeb:
- Fix the Java parser's handling of string definitions to avoid ignoring
value directory; avoiding slowing substitution logic when there's no
'$' in the string.
+ From Jan Nieuwenhuizen:
+
+ - Fix a problem with interpreting quoted argument lists on command lines.
+
+ 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.
+
+ - Add /sw/bin to the default execution PATH on Mac OS X.
+
From Gary Oberbrunner:
- Add an Environment.Dump() method to print the contents of a
- 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.
+
+ - Add support for Intel C++ beta 9.0 (both 32 and 64 bit versions).
+
+ - Document the new $FRAMEWORK* variables for 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 Chris Pawling:
- Have the linkloc tool use $MSVS_VERSION to select the Microsoft
Visual Studio version to use.
+ 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 Asfand Yar Qazi:
+
+ - Add /opt/bin to the default execution PATH on all POSIX platforms
+ (between /usr/local/bin and /bin).
+
From Kevin Quick:
- Fix the Builder name returned from ListBuilders and other instances
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 Christoph Schulz:
+
+ - Add support for $CONFIGUREDIR and $CONFIGURELOG variables to control
+ the directory and logs for configuration tests.
+
+ - Add support for a $INSTALLSTR variable.
+
+ 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 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 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.
+
+ - Add use of $CPPDEFINES to $RCCOM (resource file compilation) on MinGW.
+
+ 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 Greg Ward:
+
+ - Fix a misplaced line in the man page.
+
From Christoph Wiedemann:
- Add an Environment.SetDefault() method that only sets values if
- 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).
+
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