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.
- Better conform to Debian packaging convention by changing the name
we build to scons-{version}-0.1_all.deb (not *-1_all.deb).
From Anthony Roach:
- Fix scanning of pre-compiled header (.pch) files for #includes,
broken in 0.96.
IMPORTANT: Release 0.96 contains the following interface changes:
- All Builder calls now return a *list* of Nodes, even when the Builder
only builds one file. This may require SConscript file changes if
you were manipulating the return values from Builders.
- The SConsignFile() function now uses a different internal database
format by default. This will cause a rebuild when you upgrade to
0.96 unless you modify your SConsignFile() call.
- The internal format of .sconsign files has been changed. The change
was coded to be backwards-compatible, but there might be corner
cases that cause warnings about "ignoring corrupt .sconsign files"
and rebuilds when you use SCons 0.96 for the first time in an
already-built tree.
- The scan_check function that can be supplied to a custom Scanner now
must take two arguments, the Node to be checked and a construction
environment. It previously only used the Node as an argument.
- The internal "node_factory" and "scanner" keyword arguments have
been removed from the Builder() function, in favor of separate
"target_factory," "source_factory," "target_scanner" and
"source"scanner" keywords, which are now documented.
- The Scanner add_skey() function has been dropped in favor of using
construction variables for the lists of file suffixes known to
a Scanner.
- File name extensions that contain all digits are now assumed to
be version numbers and treated as part of the file basename.
- The env.Append() and env.Prepend() methods have been changed to
behave like the rest of Python when either argument is a UserList.
See the release notes for more information about these changes.
This release adds the following new features:
- A new --debug=explain option tells SCons to report the reason(s)
why it thinks it must rebuild something.
- New Moc() and Uic() Builders provide 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.
- Support for Fortran 90 and Fortran 95 has been added.
- The newer "ifort" versions of the Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux
are now supported.
- New functions have been added to return platform-independent Actions
that Chmod(), Copy(), Delete(), Mkdir(), Move() and Touch() files
and/or directories.
- A new Execute() function can now execute Actions directly at
SConscript-read time.
- A new $RPATH variable has been added that specifies a list of
directories for the GNU and IRIX linkers to search for shared
libraries.
- New $CPPSUFFIXES, $DSUFFIXES, $FORTRANSUFFIXES and $IDLSUFFIXES
variables have been added that make it easier to arrange for
additional file suffixes to be scanned by the default Scanners.
- A new Flatten() function can be used to turn nested lists of Nodes
(or other arguments) into a flat list.
- A new --debug=presub option prints the commands to be executed before
their construction variables are expanded.
- A new .win32 Node attribute will expand file names with Windows
backslash path separators on any system.
- A new ARGLIST variable makes it possible to fetch keyword=value
arguments in the order specified on the command line.
- Support has been added for the .dylib shared library suffix
and -dynamiclib linker option on Mac OS X (darwin).
For a complete list see the included CHANGES.txt.
from pkgsrc-wip
SCons is an Open Source software construction tool--that is, a build tool;
an improved substitute for the classic Make utility; a better way to build
software.
