3 SCons - a software construction tool
7 NOTE: The 4.0.0 release of SCons dropped Python 2.7 support. Use 3.1.2 if
8 Python 2.7 support is required (but note old SCons releases are unsupported).
9 NOTE: Since SCons 4.3.0, Python 3.6.0 or above is required.
10 NOTE: Python 3.6 support is deprecated and will be dropped in a future reease.
11 python.org no longer supports 3.6 or 3.7, and will drop 3.8 in Oct. 2024.
13 RELEASE VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
16 - GetSConsVersion() to grab the latest SCons version without needing to
17 access SCons internals.
18 - Migrate setup.cfg logic to pyproject.toml; remove setup.cfg.
19 - Update .gitattributes to match .editorconfig; enforce eol settings.
22 - Fix issue #3935: OSErrors are now no longer hidden during execution of
23 Actions. All exceptions during the execution of an Action are now
24 returned by value rather than by raising an exception, for more
26 NOTE: With this change, user created Actions should now catch and handle
27 expected exceptions (whereas previously many of these were silently
28 caught and suppressed by the SCons Action exection code).
30 From Ryan Carsten Schmidt:
31 - Teach ParseFlags to put a --stdlib=libname argument into CXXFLAGS.
32 If placed in CCFLAGS (the default location), it could be fed to the
33 C compiler (gcc, clang) where it is not applicable and causes a
37 - Updated Value Node docs and tests.
38 - Python 3.13 compat: re.sub deprecated count, flags as positional args,
39 caused update-release-info test to fail.
40 - Dump() with json format selected now recognizes additional compound types
41 (UserDict and UserList), which improves the detail of the display.
42 json output is also sorted, to match the default display.
43 - Python 3.13 (alpha) changes the behavior of isabs() on Windows. Adjust
44 SCons usage of in NodeInfo classes to match. Fixes #4502, #4504.
45 - Drop duplicated __getstate__ and __setstate__ methods in AliasNodeInfo,
46 FileNodeInfo and ValueNodeInfo classes, as they are identical to the
47 ones in parent NodeInfoBase and can just be inherited.
48 - Update manpage for Tools, and for TOOL, which also gets a minor
49 tweak for how it's handled (should be more accurate in a few situations).
50 - Test framework now uses a subdirectory named "scons" below the base
51 temporary directory. This gives something invariant to tell antivirus
52 to ignore without having to exclude tmpdir itself. Fixes #4509.
53 - MSVS "live" tests of project files adjusted to look for the generated
54 executable with an exe sufffix
55 - Documentation build now properly passes through skipping the PDF
56 (and EPUB) builds of manpage and user guide; this can also be done
57 manually if directly calling doc/man/SConstruct and doc/user/SConstruct
58 by adding SKIP_PDF=1. This should help with distro packaging of SCons,
59 which now does not need "fop" and other tools to be set up in order to
60 build pdf versions which are then ignored.
61 - Add the ability to print a Variables object for debugging purposes
62 (provides a __str__ method in the class).
63 - Mark Python 3.6 support as deprecated.
64 - Clean up Variables: more consistently call them variables (finish the
65 old change from Options) in docstrings, etc.; some typing and other
66 tweaks. Update manpage and user guide for Variables usage.
67 - Regularize internal usage of Python version strings and drop one
68 old Python 2-only code block in a test.
69 - scons-time tests now supply a "filter" argument to tarfile.extract
70 to quiet a warning which was added in Python 3.13 beta 1.
71 - Improved the conversion of a "foreign" exception from an action
72 into BuildError by making sure our defaults get applied even in
73 corner cases. Fixes #4530.
74 - Restructured API docs build (Sphinx) so main module contents appear
75 on a given page *before* the submodule docs, not after. Also
76 tweaked the Util package doc build so it's structured more like the
77 other packages (a missed part of the transition when it was split).
78 - Updated manpage description of Command "builder" and function.
79 - Framework for scons-time tests adjusted so a path with a long username
80 Windows has squashed doesn't get re-expanded. Fixes a problem seen
81 on GitHub Windows runner which uses a name "runneradmin".
82 - SCons.Environment.is_valid_construction_var() now returns a boolean to
83 match the convention that functions beginning with "is" have yes/no
84 answers (previously returned either None or an re.match object).
85 Now matches the annotation and docstring (which were prematurely
86 updated in 4.6). All SCons usage except unit test was already fully
87 consistent with a bool.
88 - When a variable is added to a Variables object, it can now be flagged
89 as "don't perform substitution" by setting the argument subst.
90 This allows variables to contain characters which would otherwise
91 cause expansion. Fixes #4241.
92 - The test runner now recognizes the unittest module's return code of 5,
93 which means no tests were run. SCons/Script/MainTests.py currently
94 has no tests, so this particular error code is expected - should not
95 cause runtest to give up with an "unknown error code".
96 - Updated the notes about reproducible builds with SCons and the example.
97 - The Clone() method now respects the variables argument (fixes #3590)
98 - is_valid_construction_var() (not part of the public API) moved from
99 SCons.Environment to SCons.Util to avoid the chance of import loops. Variables
100 and Environment both use the routine and Environment() uses a Variables()
101 object so better to move to a safer location.
104 RELEASE 4.7.0 - Sun, 17 Mar 2024 17:22:20 -0700
106 From Ataf Fazledin Ahamed:
107 - Use of NotImplemented instead of NotImplementedError for special methods
108 of _ListVariable class
111 - Fix issue #2755: the msvs tool no longer writes the OS environment SCONS_HOME
112 value into the SCons environment when the SCONS_HOME variable already exists
113 in the SCons environment. Prior to this change, a valid user-defined SCons
114 environment value for SCONS_HOME would be overwritten with the OS environment
115 value of SCONS_HOME which could be None (i.e., undefined).
116 - Update the windows registry keys for detection of Visual Studio 2015 Express
117 ('14.0Exp'): the VS2015 registry key ('WDExpress') appears to be different
118 than the registry key ('VCExpress') for earlier Visual Studio express
119 versions. The registry key value is relative to the installation root rather
120 than the VC folder and requires additional path components during evaluation.
121 - Fix the vs-6.0-exec.py test script: the msvs generated project is 'foo.dsp'
122 and the command-line invocation of the Visual Studio development environment
123 program was attempting to build 'test.dsp'. The command-line invocation was
124 changed to build 'foo.dsp'.
125 - Update the msvs project generation test scripts: the msvs project execution
126 tests could produce a "false positive" test result when the test executable is
127 correctly built via the SConstruct env.Program() call and the command-line
128 invocation of the Visual Studio development environment program fails. The
129 test passes due to the existence of the test executable from the initial
130 build. The tests were modified to delete the test executable, object file,
131 and sconsign file prior to the command-line invocation of the VS development
133 - Method unlink_files was added to the TestCmd class that unlinks a list of
134 files from a specified directory. An attempt to unlink a file is made only
135 when the file exists; otherwise, the file is ignored.
136 - Fix issue #4320: add an optional argument list string to configure's CheckFunc
137 method so that the generated function argument list matches the function's
138 prototype when including a header file.
141 - Explicitly wrap non-serializable values in json dump
142 - Implemented SCons.Util.sctyping as a safe means of hinting complex types. Currently
143 only implemented for `Executor` as a proof-of-concept.
146 - Fix sphinx config to handle SCons versions with post such as: 4.6.0.post1
149 - Remove unnecessary dependencies on pypi packages from setup.cfg
152 - Fix of the --debug=sconscript option to return exist statements when using return
153 statement with stop flag enabled
155 From Prabhu S. Khalsa:
156 - Fix typo in user documentation (issue #4458)
159 - The NewParallel scheduler is now the default, the `tm_v2` flag is removed,
160 and the old scheduler is opt-in under `--experimental=legacy_sched`. Additionally,
161 the new scheduler is now used for -j1 builds as well.
162 - A python interpreter with support for the `threading` package is now required,
163 and this is enforced on startup. SCons currently sets its minimum supported
164 Python to 3.6, and it was not until Python 3.7 where `threading` became
165 default supported. In practice, we expect most real world Python 3.6 deployments
166 will have `threading` support enabled, so this will not be an issue.
167 - CacheDir writes no longer happen within the taskmaster critical section,
168 and therefore can run in parallel with both other CacheDir writes and the
170 - The NewParallel scheduler now only adds threads as new work requiring execution
171 is discovered, up to the limit set by -j. This should reduce resource utilization
172 when the achievable parallelism in the DAG is less than the -j limit.
175 - Add support for Python 3.13 (as of alpha 2). So far only affects
176 expected bytecodes in ActionTests.py.
177 - sconsign cleanup - remove some dead code, minor manpage tweaks.
178 - Be more cautious about encodings fetching command output on Windows.
179 Problem occurs in piped-spawn scenario, used by Configure tests.
181 - Clarify/fix documentation of Scanners in User Guide and Manpage.
183 - Fix bad typing in Action.py: process() and strfunction().
184 - Add Pseudo() to global functions, had been omitted. Fixes #4474.
185 - Improve handling of file data that SCons itself processes - try
186 harder to decode non-UTF-8 text. SCons.Util.to_Text now exists
187 to convert a byte stream, such as "raw" file data. Fixes #3569, #4462.
188 The Pseudo manpage entry was updated to provide more clarity.
189 - Clarify how SCons finds the project top directory, and what that is used for.
190 - The internal routine which implements the PyPackageDir function
191 would fail with an exception if called with a module which is
192 not found. It will now return None. Updated manpage entry and
194 - Doc update: standardized on the use of a new entity &MSVC; to
195 describe the Microsoft C++ compiler. Update the version table slightly.
196 Amplified the usage of MSVC_VERSION.
197 - Improve SharedLibrary docs a bit.
198 - More consistent use of &Python; in the manpage. A few links added.
199 A warning about overwriting env['ENV'] and one about Configure
200 checks possibly not running in in no-exec mode also added.
201 - Update warnings module: adds docstrings, drop three unused warnings
202 (DeprecatedSourceCodeWarning, TaskmasterNeedsExecuteWarning,
203 DeprecatedMissingSConscriptWarning) add two warnings to manpage
204 (cache-cleanup-error, future-reserved-variable), improve unittest, tweak
206 - Add locking around creation of CacheDir config file. Fixes #4489.
207 - Clarify MergeFlags usage of a dict argument.
208 - SCons documentation build can now be controlled through SKIP_DOC
209 variable - rather than just true/false can now specify
210 skip none, skip all, skip pdf docs, skip api docs.
213 RELEASE 4.6.0 - Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:22:20 -0700
216 - Add missing directories to searched paths for mingw installs
219 - Fix issue #4312: the cached installed msvc list had an indirect dependency
220 on the target architecture in the environment dictionary. The first call
221 to construct the installed msvc list now forces the target architecture to be
222 undefined, constructs the installed msvc list, and then restores the original
224 Note: an indirect dependency on the VSWHERE construction variable in the
226 - Fix issue #4312: explicitly guard against an empty regular expression list
227 when msvc is not installed.
228 - When trying to find a valid msvc batch file, check that the compiler executable
229 (cl.exe) exists for VS6 to VS2015 to avoid executing the msvc batch file. Always
230 check that the compiler executable is found on the msvc script environment path
231 after running the msvc batch file. Only use the sdk batch files when all of the
232 msvc script host/target combinations have been exhausted and a valid script was
234 - Add ARM64 host configurations for windows and msvc.
235 Note: VS2013 and earlier has not been tested on ARM64.
236 - If necessary, automatically define VSCMD_SKIP_SENDTELEMETRY for VS2019 and later
237 on ARM64 hosts when using an arm32 build of python to prevent a powershell dll
238 not found error pop-up window.
239 - Fix an issue where test SConfTests.py would fail when mscommon debugging
240 was enabled. The mscommon debug filter class registered with the logging
241 module was refactored.
242 - Add arm64 to the MSVS supported architectures list for VS2017 and later to be
243 consistent with the current documentation of MSVS_ARCH.
244 - Fix an issue with an unhandled MissingConfiguration exception due to an msvc
245 registry query that returns a path that does not exist. Multiple invocation
246 paths were not prepared to handle the MissingConfiguration exception. The
247 MissingConfiguration exception type was removed.
248 - The MSCommon module import was changed from a relative import to a top-level
249 absolute import in the following Microsoft tools: midl, mslib, mslink, mssdk, msvc,
250 msvs. Moving any of these tools that used relative imports to the scons site tools
251 folder would fail on import (i.e., the relative import paths become invalid when
253 - The detection of the msvc compiler executable (cl.exe) has been modified:
254 * The host os environment path is no longer evaluated for the existence of the
255 msvc compiler executable when searching the detection dictionary.
256 * The existence of the msvc compiler executable is checked in the detection
257 dictionary and the scons ENV path before the detection dictionary is merged
259 * Different warnings are produced when the msvc compiler is not detected in the
260 detection dictionary based on whether or not an msvc compiler was detected in
261 the scons ENV path (i.e., a msvc compiler executable already exists in the
262 user's ENV path prior to detection).
263 * The warning message issued when a msvc compiler executable is not found in the
264 detection dictionary was modified by adding the word "requested":
265 Old warning: "Could not find MSVC compiler 'cl'."
266 New warning: "Could not find requested MSVC compiler 'cl'.".
267 * An additonal sentence is appended to the warning message issued when an msvc
268 compiler executable is not found in the msvc detection dictionary and is found
269 in the user's ENV path prior to detection:
270 " A 'cl' was found on the scons ENV path which may be erroneous."
272 From Vitaly Cheptsov:
273 - Fix race condition in `Mkdir` which can happen when two `SConscript`
274 are processed simultaneously by two separate build commands.
277 - The --debug flag now has a 'json' option which will write information
278 generated by --debug={count, memory, time, action-timestamps} and about
280 - Obsoleted YACCVCGFILESUFFIX, being replaced by YACC_GRAPH_FILE_SUFFIX.
281 If YACC_GRAPH_FILE_SUFFIX is not set, it will respect YACCVCGFILESUFFIX.
284 - The newly added --debug=sconscript option (new) will output notices when
285 entering an exiting each SConscript as they are processed.
287 From Philipp Maierhöfer:
288 - Fix gfortran tool initialization. Defaults to using binary named gfortran
289 as would be expected, and properly set's SHFORTRAN flags to include -fPIC
290 where previously it was only doing so for the other fortran versions (F77,..)
292 From Jonathon Reinhart:
293 - Fix another instance of `int main()` in CheckLib() causing failures
294 when using -Wstrict-prototypes.
297 - C scanner's dictifyCPPDEFINES routine did not understand the possible
298 combinations of CPPDEFINES - not aware of a "name=value" string either
299 embedded in a sequence, or by itself. The conditional C scanner thus
300 did not always properly apply the defines. The regular C scanner does
301 not use these, so was not affected. [fixes #4193]
302 - Minor cleanup for ValidateOptions - docs and docstring tweaked,
303 add missed versionadded indicator.
304 - Added some typing annotations generated by a tool, to eliminate manual
305 work in future on things which are safe for the tool to produce.
306 Then manually fixed up some things related to bool that the tool did
307 not handly ideally. For example, simple functions which just did
308 "return 1" were interpreted by the tool as returning int, when bool
309 was really the intent. Functions/methods named like "is_*", "has_*",
310 "exists" are now pretty consistently marked as "-> bool".
311 - Simplify some code due to pylint observation: "C2801: Unnecessarily
312 calls dunder method __call__. Invoke instance directly."
313 - Python 3.9 dropped the alias base64.decodestring, deprecated since 3.1.
314 Only used in msvs.py. Use base64.decodebytes instead.
315 - When debugging (--debug=pdb), the filenames SConstruct and SConscript
316 are now recognized when manipulating breakpoints. Previously,
317 only a full pathname to an sconscript file worked, as pdb requires
318 a .py extension to open a file that is not an absolute path.
319 - SCons test runner now uses pathlib to normalize and compare paths
321 - D compilers : added support for generation of .di interface files.
322 New variables DI_FILE_DIR, DI_FILE_DIR_PREFIX, DI_FILE_DIR_SUFFIX,
324 - Fixed: when using the mingw tool, if an msys2 Python is used (os.sep
325 is '/' rather than the Windows default '\'), certain Configure checks
326 could fail due to the construction of the path to run the compiled check.
327 - Added effort to find mingw if it comes from Chocolatey install of msys2.
328 - Minor doc fixes: signature of Alias() now matches implementation
329 to avoid problem if kwargs used; case of Alias with no targets is
330 mentioned in text (was already shown in example); now mention that
331 Action([item]) does not return a ListAction - previously implied
332 that if arg was a list, a ListAction was *always* returned; mention
333 default Decider and sort the names of available decider functions,
334 and add a version marking. Minor fiddling with Alias.py docstrings.
335 - Python 3.12 support: new bytecodes for ActionTests.py, adapt to
336 changes to pathlib module in runtest.py (PosixPath no longer
337 converts slashes if given a Windows-style path). Also switch to
338 using `subTest` in `ActionTests`, so that we can see all 21 fails
339 due to bytecode changes (previously testcases aborted on the first
340 assert fail so we only saw seven), and use unittest asserts to
341 simplify complex printing stanzas.
342 - Added copyright headers to files in test/ that didn't have them.
343 - Drop three unused methods from the Environment Base class:
344 get_src_sig_type and get_tgt_sig_type, as well as "private"
345 _changed_source. These were orphaned when the long-deprecated
346 Source Signatures and Target Signatures were removed, these were
348 - Remove dead code: some mocked classes in unit tests had methods
349 which have been removed from the Node class they're mocking,
350 there's no need to shadow those any more as there are no callers.
351 The methods are depends_on (base functionality removed in 2005)
352 and is_pseudeo_derived (base functionality removed in 2006). There
354 - Added pass_test() call to test/MSVC/MSVC_BATCH-spaces-targetdir.py.
355 It looked it was missing a more detailed check, but it should be
356 sufficient just to check the build worked. Renamed the fixture
357 dir to follow naming convention in test/MSVC overall, and added
358 a sconstest.skip file, also to follow convention.
359 - Marked some scanner methods as @staticmethod.
360 - Class ActionBase is now an abstract base class to more accurately
361 reflect its usage. Derived _ActionAction inherits the ABC, so it
362 now declares (actually raises NotImplementedError) two methods it
363 doesn't use so it can be instantiated by unittests and others.
364 - The yacc tool now understands the bison behavior of --header,
365 --defines and --graph being called without option-argument as being
366 synonyms for -d (first two) and -g. -H also recognized as a synonym
367 for -d. Default value for $YACC_GRAPH_FILE_SUFFIX changed to '.gv'
368 to match current bison default (since bison 3.8). Set this variable
369 to '.dot' if using byacc. The graph file name (-g) is now generated
370 relative to the requested target file name, not to the source file
371 name, to match actual current behavior (only affects if target
372 explicitly requested with a different base name
373 than source). Docs updated. Fixes #4326 and #4327.
374 - Cleaned up dblite module (checker warnings, etc.).
375 - Some cleanup in the FortranCommon tool.
376 - Rewrite the internal _subproc routine - a new scons_subproc_run() now
377 makes use of Python's subprocess.run in a more natural way, getting
378 around some of the issues with attempted context manager use, fetching
379 output, etc. - we let the subprocess module do the hard work,
380 since it's well debugged and supported. _subproc is no longer
381 called by internal code, but remains in place in case there are builds
382 which call to it (even though it was never "published API").
383 - Changed the message about scons -H to clarify it shows built-in options.
384 - Improve CacheDir() Documentation.
385 - Release-building setup tweaked. (most of) the targets listed in
386 SCons' own "scons --help" now work again.
387 - Fix platform unit test on Windows for Py 3.12+. Fixes #4376.
388 - More tweaking of test framework overview (which is duplicated onto
389 the website, but not in the regular documentation section).
390 - Extend range of recognized Java versions to 20.
391 - Builder calls now accept PathLike objects in source lists. Fixes #4398.
392 - The Help() function now takes an additional keyword argument
393 keep_local: when starting to build a help message, you can now
394 retain help from AddOption calls, but omit help for SCons' own
395 command-line options with "Help(newtext, append=True, local_only=True)".
396 - A little more code "modernization", done via "pypgrade" tool set
397 to "3.6 and above" setting.
398 - Finish the change to make calling SConscript() with a nonexistent
399 file an error. It has issued a warning since 3.0, with "warn instead
400 of fail" deprecated since 3.1. Fixes #3958.
401 - Minor (non-functional) cleanup of some tests, particuarly test/MSVC.
402 - Added more error handling while reading msvc config cache.
403 (Enabled/specified by SCONS_CACHE_MSVC_CONFIG).
404 The existing cache will be discarded if there's a decode error reading it.
405 It's possible there's a race condition creating this issue in certain CI
406 builds. Also add a simple filesystem-based locking protocol to try to
407 avoid the problem occuring.
408 - Update the first two chapters on building with SCons in the User Guide.
409 - Update docs on Export/Import - make sure mutable/immutable status has
411 - Some cleanup to the Util package, including renaming SCons.Util.types
412 to SCons.Util.sctypes to avoid any possible confusion with the
413 Python stdlib types module.
414 - TeX tests: skip tests that use makeindex or epstopdf not installed, or
415 if `kpsewhich glossaries.sty` fails.
416 - Added a .note.GNU-stack section to the test assembler files to
417 avoid the GNU linker issuing warnings for its absence.
418 - Eliminate more http: references (mostly in comments/docstrings where
419 they really weren't harmful). A few links labeled dead with no alt.
420 - Add JDK 21 LTS support
421 - Add a LIBLITERALPREFIX variable which can be set to the linker's
422 prefix for considering a library argument unmodified (e.g. for the
423 GNU linker, the ':' in '-l:libfoo.a'). Fixes Github issue #3951.
424 - Update PCH builder docs with some usage notes.
426 RELEASE 4.5.2 - Sun, 21 Mar 2023 14:08:29 -0700
429 - Remove the redundant `wheel` dependency from `pyproject.toml`,
430 as it is added automatically by the setuptools PEP517 backend.
433 - Fix a problem (#4321) in 4.5.0/4.5.1 where ParseConfig could cause an
434 exception in MergeFlags when the result would be to add preprocessor
435 defines to existing CPPDEFINES. The following code illustrates the
436 circumstances that could trigger this:
437 env=Environment(CPPDEFINES=['a'])
438 env.Append(CPPDEFINES=['b'])
439 env.MergeFlags({'CPPDEFINES': 'c'})
442 RELEASE 4.5.1 - Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:08:29 -0700
445 - Fix a problem in 4.5.0 where using something like the following code
446 will cause a Clone()'d environment to share the CPPDEFINES with the
447 original Environment() which was cloned. Causing leakage of changes
448 to CPPDEFINES when they should be completely independent after the Clone.
449 env=Environment(CPPDEFINES=['a'])
450 env.Append(CPPDEFINES=['b']) (or AppendUnique,Prepend,PrependUnique)
452 env1.Append(CPPDEFINES=['c']) (or any other modification, but not overwriting CPPDEFINES
453 Now env['CPPDEFINES'] will contain 'c' when it should not.
456 RELEASE 4.5.0 - Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:08:29 -0700
458 From Anatoli Babenia:
459 - Do not initialize DefaultEnvironment when calling EnsureSConsVersion(),
460 EnsurePythonVersion(), Exit(), GetLaunchDir() and SConscriptChdir().
461 - Remove unused private method SConsEnvironment._exceeds_version().
464 - Added ValidateOptions() which will check that all command line options are in either
465 those specified by SCons itself, or by AddOption() in SConstruct/SConscript. It should
466 not be called until all AddOption() calls are completed. Resolves Issue #4187
467 - Refactored SCons/Taskmaster into a package. Moved SCons/Jobs.py into that package.
468 NOTE: If you hook into SCons.Jobs, you'll have to change that to use SCons.Taskmaster.Jobs
469 - Changed the Taskmaster trace logic to use python's logging module. The output formatting
470 should remain (mostly) the same. Minor update to unittest for this to adjust for 1 less newline.
471 - Migrated logging logic for --taskmastertrace to use Python's logging module. Added logging
472 to NewParallel Job class (Andrew Morrow's new parallel job implementation)
473 - Ninja: Fix execution environment sanitation for launching ninja. Previously if you set an
474 execution environment variable set to a python list it would crash. Now it
475 will create a string joining the list with os.pathsep
476 - Move execution environment sanitation from Action._subproc() to
477 SCons.Util.sanitize_shell_env(ENV)
478 - Moved rpm and debian directories under packaging
479 - Added logic to help packagers enable reproducible builds into packaging/etc/. Please
480 read packaging/etc/README.txt if you are interested.
481 - Added --experimental=tm_v2, which enables Andrew Morrow's new NewParallel Job implementation.
482 This should scale much better for highly parallel builds. You can also enable this via SetOption().
483 - Fixed command line argument --diskcheck: previously a value of 'none' was ignored.
484 SetOption('diskcheck','none') is unaffected, as it did not have the problem.
485 - Added overrides argument to SCons.Subst.scons_subst(), subst_list(), subst(), and Action's process(),
486 strfunction(). This allows passing a dictionary of envvars to override when evaluating subst()'d strings/lists
487 - Fixed Issue #4275 - when outputting compilation db and TEMPFILE was in use, the compilation db would have
488 command lines using the generated tempfile for long command lines, instead of the full command line for
489 the compilation step for the source/target pair.
490 - Renamed the qt tools to qt3 since the logic in that tool is only for QT version 3. Renamed all env vars
491 which affect qt3 from QT_ to QT3_. If you are still using SCons to build QT 3 code, you'll need to update
492 your SConscripts. Note that using 'qt' tool has been deprecated for some time.
495 - Added JAVAPROCESSORPATH construction variable which populates -processorpath.
496 - Updated JavaScanner to scan JAVAPROCESSORPATH.
498 From Nickolai Korshunov
499 - Added FILE_ENCODING, to allow explicitly setting the text encoding for files
500 written by the Textfile() and Substfile() builders. If not specified, Textfile() and Substfile() builders
501 will write files as UTF-8. Fixed Issue #4302.
503 From Dan Mezhiborsky:
504 - Add newline to end of compilation db (compile_commands.json).
507 - Added error message to handle the case when SCons attempts to retrieve all the targets
508 for a specified builder from the CacheDir, fails to do so, and then runs into an error
509 when deleting the files which were retrieved. Previously if this happened there was no
511 - Fix issue #2757, where Configure checks that perform a check which reads a modified source
512 (including program, source or header file(s)) would incorrectly mark that file "up to date" so the
513 actual build would not see the file as modified. Leading to incorrect incremental builds.
514 Now configure checks now clear node info for non conftest nodes, so they will be re-evaluated for
515 the real taskmaster run when the build commences.
518 - Avoid returning UniqueList for `children` and other `Executor` APIs. This type
519 iterates more slowly than the builtin types. Also simplify uniquer_hashables to
520 use an faster implementation under the assumption of ordered dictionaries.
523 - Fixed runtest.py failure on Windows caused by excessive escaping of the path to python.exe.
526 - Run LaTeX after biber/bibtex only if necessary
529 - Added -fsanitize support to ParseFlags(). This will propagate to CCFLAGS and LINKFLAGS.
532 - A list argument as the source to the Copy() action function is now
533 correctly handled by converting elements to string. Copy errors out
534 if asked to copy a list to an existing non-directory destination.
535 Both the implementation and the strfunction which prints the progress
536 message were adjusted. Fixes #3009.
537 - doc: EnsureSConsVersion, EnsurePythonVersion, Exit, GetLaunchDir and
538 SConscriptChdir are now listed as Global functions only; the
539 Environment versions still work but are not documented.
540 - The Java scanner processing of JAVACLASSPATH for dependencies was
541 changed to split on os.pathsep instead of space, to match usage of
542 passing a path string like "xxx:yyy:zzz". This is not portable -
543 passing a POSIX-style path string (with ':') won't work on Windows
544 (';') - which is now documented with a hint to use a list instead
545 to be portable. Splitting on space broke paths with embedded spaces.
547 - Cleanup: make sure BoolVariable usage in tests and examples uses Python
548 boolean values instead of 0/1.
549 - Stop telling people to run "python setup.py install" in the User Guide.
550 Adds new content on using virtualenvs to be able to have multiple
551 different SCons versions available on one system.
552 - Added the "DefaultEnvironment(tools=[])" stanza to a number of tests
553 that are known to be particularly slow. It's still just a tiny
554 speedup, but the Windows CI had been occasionally timing out,
555 so maybe this helps a bit.
556 - Remove an extra existence check in one ninja test that caused it
557 to be skipped on some otherwise-valid Windows installations.
558 - test framework tests now pass on Linux and Windows (the latter can
559 still run into problems on some configurations), and automated
560 tests are now run on changes in this area so future problems can
562 - The single-file Util module was split into a package with a few
563 functional areas getting their own files - Util.py had grown to
565 - Add a zipapp package of scons-local: can use SCons from a local
566 file which does not need unpacking.
567 - Additional explanations for MSVSProject and MSVSSolution builders.
568 - Fix a problem (present in 4.4.0 only) where a Java inner class could
569 not be cached because the emitted filename contained a '$' and when
570 looked up through a node ended up generating a Python SyntaxError
571 because it was passed through scons_subst().
572 - Have the gfortran tool do a better job of honoring user preferences
573 for the dialect tools (F77, F90, F03 and F09, as well as the shared-library
574 equivalents SHF77, SHF90, SHF03, SHF09). Previously these were
575 unconditionally overwritten to 'gfortran'; the change should be more
576 in line with expectations of how these variables should work.
577 Also cleaned a few Fortran tests - test behavior does not change.
578 - Updated MSVC documentation - adds "version added" annotations on recently
579 added construction variables and provides a version-mapping table.
580 - Add Python 3.12 support, and indicate 3.11/3.12 support in package.
581 3.12 is in alpha for this SCons release, the bytecode sequences
582 embedded in SCons/ActionTests.py may need to change later, but
583 based on what is known now, 3.12 itself should work with this release.
584 - Add "append" keyword argument to Configure context's CheckLib and
585 CheckLibWithHeader to control whether to append or prepend (issue #2767)
586 Also added "unique" keyword, to control whether a library is added
587 or not if it is already in the $LIBS construction var in the
588 configure context. (issue #2768).
589 - Completely refactored the CPPDEFINES logic in Append/AppendUnique/Prepend/PrependUnique
590 This change fixes the following GH Issues:
591 - GH Issue #3876 - Append() and AppendUnique() will handle CPPDEFINES the same
592 - GH Issue #4254 - Make handling tuples in CPPDEFINES consistent.
593 - We no longer sort the keys added to CPPDEFINES by their dictionary keys.
594 We take advantage that their order is now stable based on insertion order
596 - Added/modifed unit and system tests to verify these changes.
599 RELEASE 4.4.0 - Sat, 30 Jul 2022 14:08:29 -0700
602 - Verify that a user specified msvc script (via MSVC_USE_SCRIPT) exists and raise an exception
603 when the user specified msvc script does not exist.
604 - Fix issue where if you only had mingw installed on a Windows system and no MSVC compiler, and
605 did not explicitly request the mingw tool, mingw tool initialization would fail and set the
606 default compiler to MSVC which wasn't installed, yielding broken build.
607 Updated mingw tool so that the generate and exists methods use the same mingw search paths
609 - Update the debug output written to stdout for MSVC initialization which is enabled by setting
610 SCONS_MSCOMMON_DEBUG=- to use the logging module. Also changed the debug output format
611 written to stdout to include more information about the source for each message of MSVC
612 initialization debugging output. A single space was added before the message for all
613 debugging output records written to stdout and to files.
614 - Refactor the data definitions for msvc configurations to allow derived data structures to be
615 constructed during initialization that removes the need for special case handling during
616 runtime execution. Special case handling of host/target combinations is eliminated and
617 replaced with pre-computed search lists that implicitly handle the differences between full
618 versions and express versions of msvc. This fixes an issue where Express versions of the MSVC
619 compiler were not detected due to differences in initial msvc detection and msvc batch file
620 determination when configuring the build environment. This could lead to build failures when
621 only an MSVC Express instance is installed and the MSVC version is not explicitly specified
622 (issue #2668 and issue #2697).
623 - Added MSVC_USE_SETTINGS construction variable to pass a dictionary to configure the msvc compiler
624 system environment as an alternative to bypassing Visual Studio autodetection entirely.
625 - Added MSVC_SDK_VERSION construction variable which allows building with a specific Microsoft
626 SDK version. This variable is used with the msvc batch file determined via autodetection subject
627 to validation constraints. Refer to the documentation for additional requirements and validation
629 - Added MSVC_TOOLSET_VERSION construction variable which allows building with a specific toolset
630 version. This variable is used with the msvc batch file determined via autodetection subject to
631 validation constraints. This variable does not affect the autodetection and selection of msvc
632 instances. The toolset version is applied after an msvc instance is selected. This could be the
633 default version of msvc. Refer to the documentation for additional requirements and validation
634 details. Addresses issue #3265, issue #3664, and pull request #4149.
635 - Added MSVC_SPECTRE_LIBS construction variable which allows building with spectre-mitigated
636 Visual C++ libraries. This variable is used with the msvc batch file determined via autodetection
637 subject to validation constraints. Refer to the documentation for additional requirements and
639 - Added MSVC_SCRIPT_ARGS construction variable which specifies command line arguments that are
640 passed to the msvc batch file determined via autodetection subject to validation constraints.
641 Refer to the documentation for additional requirements and validation details. Addresses
642 enhancement issue #4106.
643 - An exception is raised when MSVC_UWP_APP is enabled for Visual Studio 2013 and earlier.
644 Previous behavior was to silently ignore MSVC_UWP_APP when enabled for Visual Studio 2013
645 and earlier. Refer to the documentation for additional requirements and validation details.
646 MSVC_UWP_APP was extended to accept True, False, and None in addition to '1' and '0'.
647 - The imported system environment variable names for MSVC 7.0 and 6.0 have been changed to the
648 names set by their respective installers. Prior to this change, bypassing MSVC detection by
649 specifying the MSVC 7.0 batch file directly would fail due to using an erroneous environment
650 variable name. Arguments are no longer passed to the MSVC 6.0 to 7.1 batch files as no
651 arguments are required and could improve the effectiveness of the internal MSVC cache.
652 - Propagate the OS and windir environment variables from the system environment to the msvc
653 environment. The OS and windir environment variables are used in the MSVC 6.0 batch file
654 and the SDK 6.0-7.1 SetEnv.cmd batch files. Inclusion of the OS and windir environment
655 variables eliminates some partial paths and warnings generated by the MSVC 6.0 and SDK
656 6.0-7.1 batch files when the variables are not defined.
657 Note: Attempting to run the SDK 6.0-7.1 batch files directly via MSVC_USE_SCRIPT can lead to
658 build failures and/or incomplete build environments. The SDK 6.0-7.1 batch files
659 require delayed expansion to be enabled which is currently not supported and is
660 typically not enabled by default on the host system. The batch files may also require
661 environment variables that are not included by default in the msvc environment.
662 - Suppress issuing a warning when there are no installed Visual Studio instances for the default
663 tools configuration (issue #2813). When msvc is the default compiler because there are no
664 compilers installed, a build may fail due to the cl.exe command not being recognized. At
665 present, there is no easy way to detect during msvc initialization if the default environment
666 will be used later to build a program and/or library. There is no error/warning issued for the
667 default tools as there are legitimate SCons uses that do not require a c compiler.
668 - Added a global policy setting and an environment construction variable for specifying the
669 action to be taken when an msvc request cannot be satisfied. The available options are "error",
670 "exception", "warning", "warn", "ignore", and "suppress". The global policy variable may be
671 set and retrieved via the functions msvc_set_notfound_policy and msvc_get_notfound_policy,
672 respectively. These two methods may be imported from SCons.Tool.MSCommon. The environment
673 construction variable is MSVC_NOTFOUND_POLICY. When defined, the environment construction
674 variable overrides the global policy setting for a given environment. When the active policy
675 is "error" or "exception", an MSVCVersionNotFound exception is raised. When the active policy
676 is "warning" or "warn", a VisualCMissingWarning warning is issued and the constructed
677 environment is likely incomplete. When the active policy is "ignore" or "suppress", no action
678 is taken and the constructed environment is likely incomplete. As implemented, the default
679 global policy is "warning". The ability to set the global policy via an SCons command-line
680 option may be added in a future enhancement.
681 - Added a global policy setting and an environment construction variable for specifying the
682 action to be taken when msvc script errors are detected. The available options are "error",
683 "exception", "warning", "warn", "ignore", and "suppress". The global policy variable may be
684 set and retrieved via the functions msvc_set_scripterror_policy and msvc_get_scripterror_policy,
685 respectively. These two methods may be imported from SCons.Tool.MSCommon. The environment
686 construction variable is MSVC_SCRIPTERROR_POLICY. When defined, the environment construction
687 variable overrides the global policy setting for a given environment. When the active policy
688 is "error" or "exception", an MSVCScriptExecutionError exception is raised when msvc batch file
689 errors are detected. When the active policy is "warning" or "warn", an MSVCScriptExecutionWarning
690 warning is issued when msvc batch file errors are detected. When the active policy is "ignore" or
691 "suppress", msvc batch error messages are suppressed. As implemented, the default global policy
692 is "ignore". The ability to set the global policy via an SCons command-line option may be added
693 in a future enhancement.
694 - Added experimental function msvc_query_version_toolset to SCons.Tool.MSCommon. Given a version
695 specification, this function will return an msvc version and an msvc toolset version. The msvc
696 toolset version may be None. The msvc version and msvc toolset version can be used in the
697 environment construction variables MSVC_VERSION and MSVC_TOOLSET_VERSION, respectively. The
698 version specification may be an msvc version or an msvc toolset version. This is a proxy for
699 using an msvc toolset version to select an msvc instance. This function may be removed when an
700 msvc toolset version is used during msvc instance selection.
701 - Modify the MSCommon logger configuration to be independent of the root logger. This fixes an issue
702 when multiple loggers are created and the MSCommon logger added computed fields to the root logger
703 that are not present in other logging instances.
704 - Modify the MSVC_USE_SCRIPT_ARGS test fixture to disable the msvc cache. This fixes an issue where
705 the MSVC_USE_SCRIPT_ARGS test for success relied on a debug log message that was not produced when
706 the msvc cache file exists and the test keys are already in the cache as the msvc script invocation
710 - Fix check for unsupported Python version. It was broken. Also now the error message
711 will include what is the minimum supported version of Python
712 - Fix ActionTests to work with python 3.10.1 (and higher)
713 NOTE: If you build with Python 3.10.0 and then rebuild with 3.10.1 (or higher), you may
714 see unexpected rebuilds. This is due to Python internals changing which changed
715 the signature of a Python Action Function.
716 - Fix a number of Python ResourceWarnings which are issued when running SCons and/or it's tests
717 with python 3.9 (or higher)
718 - Action._subproc() can now be used as a python context manager to ensure that the
719 POpen object is properly closed.
720 (Thanks to Mats Wichmann for catching that DummyPopen needed additional logic)
721 - Added project_url for mailing lists and Discord
722 - Updated project url in steup.cfg to be https instead of http
723 - Updated setup.cfg to remove Python 3.5 and add Python 3.10
724 - Added default values for source and target arguments to _defines() function. This
725 is used to expand CPPDEFINES (and others). Previous change added those arguments
726 with no defaults, so old usage where _defines() was called without source and target
727 arguments would yield an exception. This issue was found via qt4 and qt5 tools in
728 scons-contrib https://github.com/SCons/scons-contrib/issues/45
731 - Add JavaScanner to include JAVACLASSPATH as a dependency when using the Java tool.
732 - Fix incorrect Java classpath generation when a NodeList is used as part of any JAVA*PATH variables.
735 - Add cache-debug messages for push failures.
736 - Ninja: Changed generated build.ninja file to run SCons only build Actions via
737 a SCons Deamon. Added logic for starting and connecting to SCons daemon (currently
739 - Ninja: Fix issue where Configure files weren't being properly processed when build run
741 - Ninja: Added ninja mingw support and improved ninja CommandGeneratorAction support.
742 - Ninja: Update ninja file generation to only create response files for build commands
743 which exceed MAXLINELENGTH
744 - Ninja: Added NINJA_GENERATED_SOURCE_ALIAS_NAME which allows user to specify an
745 Alias() which the ninja tool can use to determine which files are generated sources.
746 If this is not set by the user then the ninja tool will still dynamically determine
747 which files are generated sources based on NINJA_GENERATED_SOURCE_SUFFIXES, and create
748 a phony target _ninja_generated_sources. Generated sources will be built first by
749 ninja. This is needed because ninja cannot determine which generated sources are
750 required by other build targets. Code contributed by MongoDB
751 The downstream commit is here:
752 https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/2fef432fa6e7cf3fd4f22ba3b193222c2887f14f
753 - Ninja: Added special case for ninja scons daemon to work in win32 python3.6 environments.
754 This particular environment does a bad job managing popen standard file handles, so
755 some special workarounds are needed.
756 - Ninja:Added user configurable setting of ninja depfile format via NINJA_DEPFILE_PARSE_FORMAT.
757 Now setting NINJA_DEPFILE_PARSE_FORMAT to [msvc,gcc,clang] can force the ninja expected
758 format. Compiler tools will also configure the variable automatically.
759 - Ninja: Made ninja tool force the ninja file as the only target.
760 - Ninja: Improved the default targets setup and made sure there is always a default target for
761 the ninja file, which excludes targets that start and stop the daemon.
762 - Ninja: Update ninja tool so targets passed to SCons are propagated to ninja when scons
763 automatically executes ninja.
764 - Small refactor of scons daemons using a shared StateInfo class for communication
765 between the scons interactive thread and the http server thread. Added error handling
766 for scons interactive failing to startup.
767 - Ninja: Updated ninja scons daemon scripts to output errors to stderr as well as the daemon log.
768 - Ninja: Fix typo in ninja scons daemon startup which causes ConnectionRefusedError to not retry
769 - Added SHELL_ENV_GENERATORS construction variable. This variable should be set to a list
770 (or an iterable) which contains functions to be called in order
771 when constructing the execution environment (Generally this is the shell environment
772 variables). This allows the user to customize how (for example) PATH is constructed.
773 Note that these are called for every build command run by SCons. It could have considerable
774 performance impact if not used carefully.
775 to connect to the server during start up.
776 - lex: Fixed an issue with the lex tool where file arguments specified to either "--header-file="
777 or "--tables-file=" which included a space in the path to the file would be processed incorrectly
778 - Ninja: added option "--skip-ninja-regen" to enable skipping regeneration of the ninja file
779 if scons can determine the ninja file doesnot need to be regenerated, which will also
780 skip restarting the scons daemon. Note this option is could result in incorrect rebuilds
781 if scons Glob or scons generated files are used in ninja build target's command lines.
782 - Ninja: Added new alias "shutdown-ninja-scons-daemon" to allow ninja to shutdown the daemon.
783 Also added cleanup to test framework to kill ninja scons daemons and clean ip daemon logs.
784 NOTE: Test for this requires python psutil module. It will be skipped if not present.
785 - Ninja: Added command line variable NINJA_CMD_ARGS that allows to pass through ninja command line args.
786 This can also be set in your Environment().
789 - Tweak the way default site_scons paths on Windows are expressed to
790 conform to conventions (what they actually resolve to is unchanged),
791 drop a Py2 workaround, and pick a better "system" path, old one
792 remains supported (%AllUsersProfile%\scons\site_scons vs old
793 %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\scons\site_scons).
794 - Fix testsuite to work on Windows systems where there is no usable
795 association for running .py files directly. There are a few tests where
796 we need to do this for internal reasons, those are skipped in that case.
797 Bad association could mean some other tool took it over (Visual
798 Studio Code is known to do this), or no association at all.
799 - Updated debug code in MSVC and MSVS tools to conform to the
800 suggested "lazy interpolation" use of the Python logging module.
801 Calls now look like 'debug("template %s", text)' rather than
802 'debug("template %s" % text)' so the logging system does the
803 interpolation only when/if needed (was a pylint warning).
804 - Update Help (-H) output a bit. Drop "ignored for compat" entry.
805 Pass window size to formatter so it formats for wider displays too.
806 - runtest.py now accepts -j 0 to auto-detect number of usable
807 processors for testing threads.
808 - Fixed crash in C scanner's dictify_CPPDEFINES() function which happens if
809 AppendUnique is called on CPPPATH. (Issue #4108).
810 - The MSVC script_env_cache now contains a sanity check: if the retrieved
811 tools path does not exist, the entry is invalidated so it will
812 be recomputed, in an attempt to avoid scons failing when certain
813 compiler version bumps have taken place. The dictionary key (uses
814 the name of a batch file and any arguments which may have been
815 passes), is now computed a bit differently: the dashes are left
816 off if there are no arguments. The default cachefile is changed
817 to have a .json suffix, for better recognition on Windows since
818 the contents are json.
819 - As "code modernization" all of SCons now uses the current super()
820 zero-argument syntax instead of direct calls to a parent class method
821 or the super() two-argument syntax.
822 - Renamed ParseFlag's internal data structure to "mapping" instead of
823 "dict" (avoid redefining builtin)
824 - Fix an old use-before-set bug in tex tool (issue #2888)
825 - Fix a test harness exception returning stderr if a wait_for timed out.
826 - ParseConfig now correctly passes the *unique* flag to a user-supplied
827 flag-merging function.
828 - Restore the ability of the content-timestamp decider to see that a
829 a source which is a symlink has changed if the file-system target of
830 that link has been modified (issue #3880)
831 - Modernize a few tests that use now-deprecated unittest.getTestCaseNames
832 and unittest.makeSuite - Python itself suggests the replacements.
833 - SCons.Tool.find_program_path now takes an optional add_path argument
834 to add a path to the execution environment if it was discovered in
835 default_paths. Previously, the routine, called by many tool modules,
836 never altered the execution environment, leaving it to the tools.
837 - A new construction variable FORTRANCOMMONFLAGS is added which is
838 applied to all Fortran dialects, in case someone needs to set some
839 flags globally. FORTRANFLAGS looked like it was intended for that,
840 but was not applied to other dialects, and e2e tests explicitly checked
841 that FORTRANFLAGS did not propagate outside the FORTRAN dialect,
842 so the conclusion is that behavior is intentional (issue #2257)
843 - SCons programmatic importing (tool modules and platform modules)
844 no longer uses the deprecated (since Py 3.10) importlib.load_module
845 routine, shifting to the preferred exec_module. Old Python 2 compatible
846 import fallback (using the imp module) in tool module loading is dropped.
847 Tool module loading no longer special-cases Jython, which is a dead
848 project as far as SCons (no timeline in sight for Python 3 support).
849 - Improvements to lex and yacc tools: better documentation of
850 extra-file options, add test for extra-file behavior.
851 - Two new construction variables are introduced for lex (LEX_HEADER_FILE
852 and LEX_TABLES_FILE) as the preferred way of specifying these extra-file
854 - Two new construction variables are introduced for yacc
855 (YACC_HEADER_FILE and YACC_GRAPH_FILE) as the preferred way of
856 specifying these extra-file options.
860 - Added MSVC_USE_SCRIPT_ARGS variable to pass arguments to MSVC_USE_SCRIPT.
861 - Added Configure.CheckMember() checker to check if struct/class has the specified member.
863 From Ivan Kravets, PlatformIO:
864 - Conditional C/C++ Preprocessor: Strip shell's backslashes from the computed include (-DFOO_H=\"foo.h\")
866 RELEASE 4.3.0 - Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:12:46 -0700
868 From Jacob Cassagnol:
869 - Default hash algorithm check updated for SCons FIPS compliance. Now checks for hash viability
870 first and then walks the tree to use the first viable hash as the default one. This typically
871 selects SHA1 on FIPS-enabled systems less than Python 3.9 as the new default instead of MD5,
872 unless SHA1 has also been disabled by security policy, at which point SCons selects SHA256
873 as the default. For systems running Python 3.9 and later, the hashlib bug has been fixed,
874 and SCons will once again default to MD5 as the preferred algorithm.
877 - Fix MSVS tests (vs-N.N-exec.py) for MSVS 6.0, 7.0, and 7.1 (import missing module).
878 - Add support for Visual Studio 2022.
881 - Fix reproducible builds. Restore logic respecting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH when set.
882 - Fix version tests to work with updated scons --version output. (Date format changed)
883 - Fix issue #4021. Change the way subst() is used in Textfile() to not evaluate '$$(' -> '$',
884 but instead it should yield '$('.
885 - Change SCons.Platform.win32.get_architecture() to return platform.platform() when run in an
886 environment where neither: PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 nor PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE is set.
887 This should fix platform tests which started failing when HOST_OS/HOST_ARCH changes
888 introduced by Aaron Franke (listed below) were merged.
889 - Further PCH updates. It's now recommended that env['PCH'] should always be a File node.
890 Either via return value from env.PCH() or by explicitly using File('StdAfx.pch').
891 - Added --no-ignore-skips to runtest.py. Changed default to ignore skips when setting
892 runtest.py's exit status. Previously would exit 2 if any tests were skipped.
893 Now will only exit 2 if user specifies --no-ignore-skips and some tests were skipped.
896 - Small fix to ensure CLVar default value is an empty list.
897 See MongoDB bug report: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-59656
898 Code contributed by MongoDB.
899 - Ninja - Fixed an issue where if you control-c and/or killed ninja while it was running scons to
900 regenerate build.ninja you would end up with no build.ninja file and have to rerun scons from scratch.
901 Code contributed by MongoDB.
904 - Define HOST_OS and HOST_ARCH in the environment for all platforms.
905 Before this change, these were only defined for Win32 and OS/2.
908 - Fix ninja tool to never use for_sig substitution because ninja does not use signatures. This
909 issue affected CommandGeneratorAction function actions specifically.
910 - Expanded ninja Mkdir to also support Mkdir actions.
911 - Added support for the PCH environment variable to support subst generators.
912 - Fix command line escaping for ninja dollar sign escape. Without escaping ninja properly,
913 the ninja file scons regenerate and callback invocations will lose the $ characters used in
914 the scons command line which ninja uses itself for escaping. For Example:
915 scons BUILD=xyz OTHERVAR=$BUILD
916 Prior to this fix, it would cause ninja to fail to escape the dollar sign, leading to the
917 single dollar sign being used as a ninja escape character in the ninja file.
920 - Added ninja API 'NINJA_FORCE_SCONS_BUILD' to force a node to callback to scons.
923 - Two small Python 3.10 fixes: one more docstring turned into raw
924 because it contained an escape; updated "helpful" syntax error message
925 from 3.10 was not expected by SubstTests.py and test/Subst/Syntax.py
926 - EmitterProxy rich comparison set is completed (checker warning).
927 Added __le__, __gt__, __ge__.
928 - Fix gcc/g++ tool failing if "gcc --version" returns text which fails
929 to_String conversion (i.e., not UTF-8) - failure happens when tool
930 initialization checks version. For gcc, the initial version string is
931 not translated, for the rest, don't convert, just consume raw and discard.
932 - Maintenance and doc: modernize some usage in Scanner package,
933 calling super(), switching some imitialization to comprehensions,
934 and code formatting. Docstring for scanner Base moved from
935 init-method to class-level so it's picked up by Sphinx.
936 Added new sconsign filenames to skip_entry_list in Scanner/Dir.py
937 - Change SCons.Scanner.Base to ScannerBase. Old name kept as an alias
938 but is now unused in SCons itself.
939 - Call Variables option converter consistently - the converter should
940 have access to the env if it needs to (issue #2064).
941 - Fixed the variables Add() method to accept a tuple for the variable
942 name the same way AddVariables() does (issue #3869).
943 - The premade validator PathIsDirCreate for for PathVariable now catches
944 the case where the directory could not be created due to permission
945 problems, allowing a more helpful error to be emitted (issue #2828)
946 - Maintenance: Python thread.setDaemon is deprecated in favor of
947 directly updating daemon attribute - update SCons to do this.
948 - Make sure when subst'ing a callable, the callable is called with
949 the correct for_signature value, previously it would be true even
950 if doing SUBST_RAW (issue #4037)
951 - Update Util/NodeList implementation to get rid of a workaround for
952 early Python 3 slicing issue that is no longer a problem.
953 - Rework some Java tests to skip rather than fail on CI systems, where
954 the working java is > v9, but a 1.8 or 9 was also found.
955 - Java updates: on Windows, detect more default JDK install locations.
956 On all platforms, more Java versions (up to 17.0 now). Add more information
957 on version selection to docs.
958 Update docs on JavaH tool in light of javah command dropped since 10.0.
959 Try to be better about preserving user's passed-in JAVA* construction vars.
960 - Start the deprecation of the qt tool, which refers to Qt3 (usupported
961 since around 2006). There's a deprecation warning added, initially
962 defaulting to disabled.
964 From Brian Quistorff:
965 - Fix crash when scons is run from a python environement where a signal
966 is set from outside Python.
969 RELEASE 4.2.0 - Sat, 31 Jul 2021 18:12:46 -0700
972 - Fix Install() issue when copytree recursion gives bad arguments that can
973 lead to install side-effects including keeping dangling symlinks and
974 silently failing to copy directories (and their subdirectories) when the
975 directory already exists in the target.
978 - Internal MSVS update: Remove unnecessary calls to find all installed versions of msvc
979 when constructing the installed visual studios list.
982 - Improve Subst()'s logic to check for proper callable function or class's argument list.
983 It will now allow callables with expected args, and any extra args as long as they
984 have default arguments. Additionally functions with no defaults for extra arguments
985 as long as they are set using functools.partial to create a new callable which set them.
986 - Fix Issue #3035 - mingw with SHLIBVERSION set fails with either not a dll error or
987 "Multiple ways to build the same target were specified for:". Now mingw will disable
988 creating the symlinks (and adding version string to ) dlls. It sets SHLIBNOVERSIONSYMLINKS,
989 IMPLIBNOVERSIONSYMLINKS and LDMODULENOVERSIONSYMLINKS to True.
990 - Added --experimental flag, to enable various experimental features/tools. You can specify
991 'all', 'none', or any combination of available experimental features.
992 - Fix Issue #3933 - Remove unguarded print of debug information in SharedLibrary logic when
993 SHLIBVERSION is specified.
994 - Fix versioned shared library naming for MacOS platform. (Previously was libxyz.dylib.1.2.3,
995 has been fixed to libxyz.1.2.3.dylib. Additionally the sonamed symlink had the same issue,
996 that is now resolved as well)
997 - Add experimental ninja builder. (Contributed by MongoDB, Daniel Moody and many others).
998 - Fix #3955 - _LIBDIRFLAGS leaving $( and $) in *COMSTR output. Added affect_signature flag to
999 _concat function. If set to False, it will prepend and append $( and $). That way the various
1000 Environment variables can use that rather than "$( _concat(...) $)".
1001 - Fix issue with exparimental ninja tool which would fail on windows or when ninja package wasn't
1002 installed but --experimental=ninja was specified.
1003 - As part of experimental ninja tool, allow SetOption() to set both disable_execute_ninja and
1007 - Fix Issue #3906 - `IMPLICIT_COMMAND_DEPENDENCIES` was not properly disabled when
1008 set to any string value (For example ['none','false','no','off'])
1009 Also previously 'All' wouldn't have the desired affect.
1012 - Provide a custom argument escape function for `TempFileMunge` using a new
1013 `TEMPFILEARGESCFUNC` variable. Useful if you need to apply extra operations on
1014 a command argument before writing to a temporary file (fix Windows slashes,
1015 normalize paths, etc.)
1018 - DocbookXslt tool: The XSLT stylesheet file is now initialized to an env.File() Node,
1019 such that dependencies work correctly in hierarchical builds (eg when using
1020 DocbookXslt in SConscript('subdir/SConscript') context.
1023 - Update CacheDir to use uuid for tmpfile uniqueness instead of pid.
1024 This fixes cases for shared cache where two systems write to the same
1025 cache tmpfile at the same time because the happened to get the same pid.
1026 - Added support for passing custom CacheDir derived classes to SCons. Moved
1027 copy_from_cache attribute from the Environment class to CacheDir class.
1028 Code contributed by MongoDB.
1029 - Update BuildTask to pass all targets to the progress object fixing an issue
1030 where multi-target build nodes only got the first target passed to the progress
1032 - Fix a potential race condition in shared cache environments where the permissions are
1033 not writeable for a moment after the file has been renamed and other builds (users) will copy
1034 it out of the cache. Small reorganization of logic to copy files from cachedir. Moved CacheDir
1035 writeable permission code for copy to cache behind the atomic rename operation.
1036 - Added marking of intermediate and and multi target nodes generated from SConf tests so that
1037 is_conftest() is more accurate.
1038 - Added test for configure check failing to ensure it didn't break generating and running ninja.
1042 - Initial support in tests for Python 3.10 - expected bytecode and
1043 one changed expected exception message. Change some more regexes
1044 to be specified as rawstrings in response to DeprecationWarnings.
1045 - Add an example of adding an emitter to User Guide (concept
1047 - Add timing information for sconsign database dump when --debug=time
1048 is selected. Also switch to generally using time.perf_counter,
1049 which is the Python recommended way for timing short durations.
1050 - Drop remaining definitions of dict-like has_key methods, since
1051 Python 3 doesn't have a dictionary has_key (maintenance)
1052 - Do not treat --site-dir=DIR and --no-site-dir as distinct options.
1053 Allows a later instance to override an earlier one.
1054 - Ignore empty cmdline arguments when computing targets (issue 2986)
1055 - Remove long-deprecated construction variables PDFCOM, WIN32_INSERT_DEF,
1056 WIN32DEFPREFIX, WIN32DEFSUFFIX, WIN32EXPPREFIX, WIN32EXPSUFFIX.
1057 All have been replaced by other names since at least 1.0.
1058 - Add a __iadd__ method to the CLVar class so that inplace adds
1059 (+=) also work as expected (issue 2399)
1060 - Remove local copy of CLVar in EnvironmentTests unittest file -
1061 should be testing against the production version, and they
1062 didn't really differ.
1063 - Don't strip spaces in INSTALLSTR by using raw subst (issue 2018)
1064 - Deprecate Python 3.5 as a supported version.
1065 - CPPDEFINES now expands construction variable references (issue 2363)
1066 - Restore behavior that Install()'d files are writable (issue 3927)
1067 - Simplified Mkdir(), the internal mkdir_func no longer needs to handle
1068 existing directories, it can now pass exist_ok=True to os.makedirs().
1069 - Avoid WhereIs exception if user set a tool name to empty (from issue 1742)
1070 - Maintenance: remove obsolete __getslice__ definitions (Py3 never calls);
1071 add Node.fs.scandir to call new (Py3.5) os.scandir; Node.fs.makedirs
1072 now passes the exist_ok flag; Cachedir creation now uses this flag.
1073 - Maintenance: remove unneeded imports and reorganize some. Fix uses
1074 of warnings in some tools which instantiated the class but did nothing
1075 with them, need to instead call SCons.Warnings.warn with the warn class.
1076 - Drop overridden changed_since_last_build method in Value class.
1077 - Resync the SetOption implementation and the manpage, making sure new
1078 options are available and adding a notes column for misc information.
1079 SetOption equivalents to --hash-chunksize, --implicit-deps-unchanged
1080 and --implicit-deps-changed are enabled.
1081 - Add tests for SetOption failing on disallowed options and value types.
1082 - Maintenance: eliminate lots of checker complaints about Util.py.
1083 - Maintenance: fix checker-spotted issues in Environment (apply_tools)
1084 and EnvironmentTests (asserts comparing with self).
1085 For consistency, env.Tool() now returns a tool object the same way
1087 - Change SConscript() missing SConscript behavior - if must_exist=False,
1088 the warning is suppressed.
1089 - Make sure TEMPFILEPREFIX can be set to an empty string (issue 3964)
1092 - Add support for the (TARGET,SOURCE,TARGETS,SOURCES,CHANGED_TARGETS,CHANGED_SOURCES}.relpath property.
1093 This will provide a path relative to the top of the build tree (where the SConstruct is located)
1097 - Fix issue #3790: Generators in CPPDEFINES now have access to populated source
1100 RELEASE 4.1.0 - Tues, 19 Jan 2021 15:04:42 -0700
1103 - Add COMPILATIONDB_PATH_FILTER env option for CompilationDatabase() builder which allows
1104 filtering of entries based on the output file paths using glob style file matching (issue #3742).
1107 - Internal MSVC and test updates: Rework the msvc installed versions cache so that it
1108 is not exposed externally and update external references accordingly.
1109 - Modify the MSCommon internal-use only debug logging records to contain the correct relative
1110 file path when the debug function is called from outside the MSCommon module.
1112 From William Deegan:
1113 - Fix yacc tool, not respecting YACC set at time of tool initialization.
1114 - Refactor SCons.Tool to move all common shared and loadable module linking logic to SCons.Tool.linkCommon
1115 - Remove pywin32 imports from SCons.Script.Main. No longer needed.
1116 - Switch to use ctypes instead of pywin32 (requiring an extra pip install) - Fixes Github Issue #2291
1117 - pywin32 no longer necessary for SCons install. (pip install SCons will no longer also require pywin32 on win32)
1118 - Remove pywin32 usage from SCons.Util where it was used for accessing the registry. Python native winreg
1119 library already includes this functionality.
1120 - Remove using pywin32 to retrieve peak memory usage on Win32 for `--debug=memory`
1121 - Fix Issue #3759 - include scons.1, sconsign.1, scons-time.1 manpages in sdist and wheel packages.
1122 - Change SCons's build so the generated `SCons/__init__.py` is no longer removed by `scons -c`
1123 - Completely rewrote versioned shared libraries logic. Added support for SOVERSION via dmoody's initial PR #3733
1124 - No longer automatically disable setting SONAME on shared libraries on OpenBSD.
1125 - Fix race condition bug when initializing a scons cache directory at the
1126 same time from multiple threads or processes. Problem described in PR #3114.
1127 This is a simpler fix which should avoid some problems identified with the initial PR.
1128 (Credit to Fredrik Medley for reporting the issue, the initial PR, and discussing and testing
1130 - Minor edits to User Guide and manpage's header with copyright, released date changed.
1133 - Fix dvipdf test failure due to passing incorrect flag to dvipdf.
1136 - Fix minor bug affecting SCons.Node.FS.File.get_csig()'s usage of the MD5 chunksize.
1137 User-facing behavior does not change with this fix (GH Issue #3726).
1138 - Fix occasional test failures caused by not being able to find a file or directory fixture
1139 when running multiple tests with multiple jobs.
1140 - Added support for a new command-line parameter `--hash-format` to override the default
1141 hash format that SCons uses. It can also be set via `SetOption('hash_format')`. Supported
1142 values are: `md5`, `sha1`, and `sha256`. For all hash formats other than
1143 the default of `md5`, the SConsign database will include the name of the hash format.
1144 For example, `--hash-format=sha256` will create a SConsign with name
1145 `.sconsign_sha256.dblite.`.
1146 - Fix incorrect cache hits and/or misses when running in interactive mode by having
1147 SCons.Node.Node.clear() clear out all caching-related state.
1148 - Change Environment.SideEffect() to not add duplicate side effects.
1149 NOTE: The list of returned side effect Nodes will not include any duplicate side effect Nodes.
1150 - Add support to the Python scanner for finding dynamically generated dependencies.
1151 Previously the scanner only found imports if they existed on disk at scanning time.
1154 - Add ZIP_OVERRIDE_TIMESTAMP env option to Zip builder which allows for overriding of the file
1155 modification times in the archive.
1156 - Fix Zip builder not rebuilding when ZIPROOT env option was changed.
1159 - Fix python3 crash when Value node get_text_content when child content does not have decode()
1160 NOTE: If you depend on Value node's get_text_content returning concatenated contents of it's
1161 children. This may break your code. It now concatenates the csig() of all children.
1163 From Joachim Kuebart:
1164 - Suppress missing SConscript deprecation warning if `must_exist=False`
1168 - Fix Zip tool to respect ZIPCOMSTR. Previously all zip builder calls would yield something
1169 like zip(["test.zip"], ["zip_scons.py"]) and ignore ZIPCOMSTR if ZIPCOM and ZIPCOMSTR
1170 weren't set after the Environment/Tool is initialized. (Explained in PR #3659)
1173 - Fix issue where java parsed a class incorrectly from lambdas used after a new.
1176 - Fix using TEMPFILE in multiple actions in an action list. Previously a builder, or command
1177 with an action list like this:
1178 ['${TEMPFILE("xxx.py -otempfile $SOURCE")}', '${TEMPFILE("yyy.py -o$TARGET tempfile")}']
1179 Could yield a single tempfile with the first TEMPFILE's contents, used by both steps
1183 - Complete tests for Dictionary, env.keys() and env.values() for
1184 OverrideEnvironment. Enable env.setdefault() method, add tests.
1185 - Raise an error if an option (not otherwise consumed) is used which
1186 looks like an abbreviation of one one added by AddOption. (#3653)
1187 - Tool module not found will now raise a UserError to more clearly indicate this is
1188 probably an SConscript problem, and to make the traceback more relevant.
1189 - Fix three issues with MergeFlags:
1190 - Signature/return did not match documentation or existing usage - the implementation
1191 now no longer returns the passed env
1192 - merging --param arguments did not work (issue #3107);
1193 - passing a dict to merge where the values are strings failed (issue #2961).
1194 - Include previously-excluded SideEffect section in User Guide.
1195 - Clean up unneeded imports (autoflake tool).
1196 - Make sure cProfile is used if profiling - SCons was expecting
1197 the Util module to monkeypatch in cProfile as profile if available,
1198 but this is no longer being done.
1199 - Cleanup in SCons.Util.AddMethod. If called with an environment instance
1200 as the object to modify, the method would not be correctly set up in
1201 any Clone of that instance. Now tries to detect this and calls
1202 MethodWrapper to set up the method the same way env.AddMethod does.
1203 MethodWrapper moved to Util to avoid a circular import. Fixes #3028.
1204 - Some Python 2 compatibility code dropped
1205 - Rework runtest.py to use argparse for arg handling (was a mix
1206 of hand-coded and optparse, with a stated intent to "gradually port").
1207 - Add options to runtest to generate/not generate a log of failed tests,
1208 and to rerun such tests. Useful when an error cascades through several
1209 tests, can quickly try if a change improves all the fails. Dropped
1210 runtest test for fallback from qmtest, not needed; added new tests.
1211 - Eliminate tex tool usage of "for foo in range(len(iterable))"
1212 - Restore internal Trace function to functional state.
1213 - Only try to initialize the wix tool by default (or when tool `default` is explicitly installed)
1214 on Windows based systems.
1215 - Pick a better "Topic" Trove classifier for SCons: SW Dev / Build Tools
1216 - Use os.replace instead of os.rename in dblite so don't need to
1217 special-case Windows here. dblite is the default storage engine for the SConsign file(s).
1218 - Fix cut-n-paste error in msvc debug printout and make some debug output
1219 in msvs and msvsTests.py be off until needed (uncomment to use)
1220 - Fix Issue #3014 - Empty file and missing file have same csig
1221 - Refactor env.Append/Prepend to remove Py 1.5 era need to nest
1222 try blocks, can now "continue" at the appropriate places.
1223 - Add /snap/bin to env['PATH'] on POSIX, although this is only
1224 really useful for a subset of POSIX systems that use snaps.
1225 Was needed for CI builds, which run on Ubuntu LTS images.
1226 - Eliminate Py2-ism __nonzero__ (now __bool__). Work around issue #3860
1227 where a check for BuilderBase raising exc. on __bool__ was optimized out.
1228 This issue was found due to a bug in Python 3.10.0a4. See issue #3860 for details.
1231 RELEASE 4.0.1 - Mon, 16 Jul 2020 16:06:40 -0700
1234 - Fix fortran tools to set SHFORTRAN variables to $FORTRAN, similarly SHF77, SHF90, SHF95,
1235 SHF03 and SHF08 will default to the variables $F77, $F90, $F95, $F03 and $F08 respectively.
1236 If you were depending on changing the value of FORTRAN (or $F[0-9][0-9]) having no effect
1237 on the value of SHFORTRAN, this change will break that. The values of FORTRAN, F77, F90,
1238 F95, F03, F08 and SHFORTRAN, SHF77 (etc.) now are not overridden in generate if alredy set
1240 - Fix subprocess execution of 'lslpp' on AIX to produce text standard i/o.
1241 - Re-do the fix for suncxx tool (Oracle Studio compiler) now that only Python 3 is supported,
1242 to avoid decoding errors.
1244 From William Deegan:
1245 - Added Environment() variable TEMPFILEDIR which allows setting the directory which temp
1246 files createdby TEMPFILEMUNGE are created in.
1249 - Added method on Node to test if its node used in SConf. (Github Issue #3626)
1253 RELEASE 4.0.0 - Sat, 04 Jul 2020 12:00:27 +0000
1256 - Updated documentation toolchain to work properly under Python3, also
1257 removed libxslt support from the Docbook Tool. (issue #3580)
1258 - Added Docker images for building and testing SCons. (issue #3585)
1262 - Improve Visual Studio solution/project generation code to add support
1263 for a per-variant cppflags. Intellisense can be affected by cppflags,
1264 this is especially important when it comes to /std:c++* which specifies
1265 what C++ standard version to target. SCons will append /Zc:__cplusplus
1266 to the project's cppflags when a /std:c++* flag is found as this is
1267 required for intellisense to use the C++ standard version from cppflags.
1270 - Specify UTF-8 encoding when opening Java source file as text. By default, encoding is the output
1271 of locale.getpreferredencoding(False), and varies by platform.
1274 - MSVC updates: When there are multiple product installations (e.g, Community and
1275 Build Tools) of MSVC 2017 or MSVC 2019, an Enterprise, Professional,
1276 or Community installation will be selected before a Build Tools installation when
1277 "14.1" or "14.2" is requested, respectively. (GH Issue #3699).
1278 - MSVC updates: When there are multiple product installations of MSVC 2017 (e.g.,
1279 Community and Express), 2017 Express is no longer returned when "14.1" is
1280 requested. Only 2017 Express will be returned when "14.1Exp" is requested.
1282 - MSVC updates: An MSVC 6.0 installation now appears in the installed versions list
1283 when msvc debug output is enabled (GH Issue #3699).
1284 - MSVS test updates: Tests for building a program using generated MSVS project and
1285 solution files using MSVS 2015 and later now work as expected on x86 hosts.
1286 - Test update: Reduce the number of "false negative" test failures for the interactive
1287 configuration test (test/interactive/configure.py).
1288 - MSVS update: Fix the development environment path for MSVS 7.0.
1290 From William Deegan:
1291 - Fix broken clang + MSVC 2019 combination by using MSVC configuration logic to
1292 propagate'VCINSTALLDIR' and 'VCToolsInstallDir' which clang tools use to locate
1293 header files and libraries from MSVC install. (Fixes GH Issue #3480)
1294 - Added C:\msys64\mingw64\bin to default mingw and clang windows PATH's. This
1295 is a reasonable default and also aligns with changes in Appveyor's VS2019 image.
1296 - Drop support for Python 2.7. SCons will be Python 3.5+ going forward.
1297 - Change SCons.Node.ValueWithMemo to consider any name passed when memoizing Value() nodes
1298 - Fix Github Issue #3550 - When using Substfile() with a value like Z:\mongo\build\install\bin
1299 the implementation using re.sub() would end up interpreting the string and finding regex escape
1300 characters where it should have been simply replacing existing text. Switched to use string.replace().
1301 - Fix Github Issue #2904 - Provide useful error message when more than one Configure Contexts are opened.
1302 Only one open is allowed. You must call conf.Finish() to complete the currently open one before creating another
1303 - Add msys2 installed mingw default path to PATH for mingw tool.
1304 - C:\msys64\mingw64\bin
1305 - Purge obsolete internal build and tooling scripts
1306 - Allow user specified location for vswhere.exe specified by VSWHERE.
1307 NOTE: This must be set at the time the 'msvc' 'msvs' and/or 'mslink' tool(s) are initialized to have any effect.
1308 - Resolve Issue #3451 and Issue #3450 - Rewrite SCons setup.py and packaging. Move script logic to entry points so
1309 package can create scripts which use the correct version of Python.
1310 - Resolve Issue #3248 - Removing '-Wl,-Bsymbolic' from SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS
1311 NOTE: If your build depends on the above you must now add to your SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS
1312 - Speedup bin/docs-update-generated by caching parsed docbook schema. (60x speedup)
1313 - Reorganized source tree. Moved src/engine/SCons to SCons to be more in line with current Python source
1314 tree organization practices.
1315 - Renamed as.py to asm.py and left redirecting tool. 'as' is a reserved word and so
1316 changing the name was required as we wanted to import symbols for use in compilation_db
1318 - Add CompilationDatabase() builder in compilation_db tool. Contributed by MongoDB.
1319 Setting COMPILATIONDB_USE_ABSPATH to True|False controls whether the files are absolute or relative
1320 paths. Address Issue #3693 and #3694 found during development.
1321 - Fixed Github Issue 3628 - Hardcoding pickle protocol to 4 (supports python 3.4+)
1322 and skipping Python 3.8's new pickle protocol 5 whose main advantage is for out-of-band data buffers.
1323 NOTE: If you used Python 3.8 with SCons 3.0.0 or above, you may get a a pickle protocol error. Remove your
1324 .sconsign.dblite. You will end up with a full rebuild.
1326 From Andrii Doroshenko:
1327 - Extended `Environment.Dump()` to select a format to serialize construction variables (pretty, json).
1330 - Updated design doc to use the correct syntax for Depends()
1333 - Added support for scanning multiple entries in an action string if
1334 IMPLICIT_COMMAND_DEPENDENCIES is set to 2 or 'all'. This enables more thorough
1335 action scanning where every item in each command line is scanned to determine
1336 if it is a non-source and non-target path and added to the list of implicit dependencies
1338 - Added support for taking instances of the Value class as implicit
1340 - Added new module SCons.Scanner.Python to allow scanning .py files.
1341 - Added support for explicitly passing a name when creating Value() nodes. This may be useful
1342 when the value can't be converted to a string or if having a name is otherwise desirable.
1343 - Fixed usage of abspath and path for RootDir objects on Windows. Previously
1344 env.fs.Dir("T:").abspath would return "T:\T:" and now it correctly returns "T:".
1346 From Ivan Kravets, PlatformIO
1347 - New conditional C Scanner (`SCons.Scanner.C.CConditionalScanner()`)
1348 which interprets C/C Preprocessor conditional syntax (#ifdef, #if, #else,
1349 #elif, #define, etc.)
1350 - Improvements for virtual C Pre-Processor:
1351 * Handle UNSIGNED LONG and LONG numeric constants in DEC (keep support for HEX)
1352 * Skip unrecognized directives, such as `#if( defined ...)`
1353 * Ignore `#include DYNAMIC_INCLUDE` directive that depends on a dynamic
1354 macro which is not located in a state TABLE.
1355 * Cleanup CPP expressions before evaluating (strip comments, carriage returns)
1358 - Added a new flag called "linedraw" for the command line argument "--tree"
1359 that instructs scons to use single line drawing characters to draw the dependency tree.
1362 - Add no_progress (-Q) option as a set-able option. However, setting it in the
1363 SConstruct/SConscript will still cause "scons: Reading SConscript files ..." to be
1364 printed, since the option is not set when the build scripts first get read.
1365 - Added check for SONAME in environment to setup symlinks correctly (Github Issue #3246)
1366 - User callable's called during substition expansion could possibly throw a TypeError
1367 exception, however SCons was using TypeError to detect if the callable had a different
1368 signature than expected, and would silently fail to report user's exceptions. Fixed to
1369 use signature module to detect function signature instead of TypeError. (Github Issue #3654)
1370 - Added storage of SConstructs and SConscripts nodes into global set for checking
1371 if a given node is a SConstruct/SConscript.
1372 Added new node function SCons.Node.is_sconscript(self) (Github Issue #3625)
1375 - Fix Issue #3469 - Fixed improper reuse of temporary and compiled files by Configure when changing
1376 the order and/or number of tests. This is done by using the hash of the generated temporary files
1377 content and (For the target files) the hash of the action.
1378 So where previously files would be named:
1379 - config_1.c, config_1.o, config_1
1380 The will now be named (For example)
1381 - conftest_68b375d16e812c43e6d72d6e93401e7c_0.c,
1382 conftest_68b375d16e812c43e6d72d6e93401e7c_0_5713f09fc605f46b2ab2f7950455f187.o
1384 conftest_68b375d16e812c43e6d72d6e93401e7c_0.o
1385 conftest_68b375d16e812c43e6d72d6e93401e7c_0_5713f09fc605f46b2ab2f7950455f187 (for executable)
1387 From Mathew Robinson:
1388 - Improve performance of Subst by preventing unnecessary frame
1389 allocations by no longer defining the *Subber classes inside of their
1390 respective function calls.
1391 - Improve performance of Subst in some cases by preventing
1392 unnecessary calls to eval when a token is surrounded in braces
1393 but is not a function call.
1394 - Improve performance of subst by removing unnecessary recursion.
1395 - Cleanup dangling symlinks before running builders (Issue #3516)
1398 - Remove deprecated SourceCode
1399 - str.format syntax errors fixed
1400 - a bunch of linter/checker syntax fixups
1401 - Convert remaining uses of insecure/deprecated mktemp method.
1402 - Clean up some duplications in manpage. Clarify portion of manpage on Dir and File nodes.
1403 - Reduce needless list conversions.
1404 - Fixed regex in Python scanner.
1405 - Accommodate VS 2017 Express - it's got a more liberal license then VS
1406 Community, so some people prefer it (from 2019, no more Express)
1407 - vswhere call should also now work even if programs aren't on the C: drive.
1408 - Add an alternate warning message if cl.exe is not found and msvc config
1409 cache is in use (SCONS_CACHE_MSVC_CONFIG was given) - config cache
1411 - Fixed bug where changing TEXTFILESUFFIX would cause Substfile() to rebuild. (Github Issue #3540)
1412 - Script/Main.py now uses importlib instead of imp module.
1413 - Drop some Python 2-isms.
1414 - MSVC updates: pass on VSCMD_DEBUG and VSCMD_SKIP_SENDTELEMETRY to msvc
1415 tool setup if set in environment. Add Powershell to default env
1416 (used to call telemetry script).
1417 - Microsoft Visual Studio - switch to using uuid module to generate GUIDs rather than hand rolled
1418 method using md5 directly.
1419 NOTE: This change affects the following builders' output. If your build depends on the output of these builders
1420 you will likely see a rebuild.
1421 * Package() (with PACKAGETYPE='msi')
1424 - Docbook builder provides a fallback if lxml fails to generate
1425 a document with tostring().
1426 - Fix description of ARCOMSTR constr. var. (issue 3636). Previously the text was a copy of ASCOMSTR which
1427 has different function.
1428 - Update xml files in SCons to reflect changed relative paths after
1429 code restructuring (src/engine/SCons -> SCons)
1430 - Preliminary Python 3.9 support - elimination of some warnings.
1431 - Drop the with_metaclass jig which was designed to let class
1432 definitions using a metaclass be written the same for Py2/Py3.
1433 - Bump python_version_unsupported (and deprecated) to indicate 3.5
1434 is lowest supported Python.
1435 - ParseFlags should not modify the user's passed in dict in case it's
1436 a compound data structure (e.g. values are lists) (issue #3665)
1437 - In Py3 classes no longer need to be listed as deriving from object.
1438 - Remove deprecated check for Task subclasses needing a needs_execute
1439 method - this is now enforced via an abstract base class, so the
1440 check and test is no longer needed.
1441 - Close various logfiles (trace, cache, taskmastertrace, configure)
1442 when done using atexit calls.
1443 - Rebase forked copy of shutil.copytree to Python 3.7 stlib version.
1444 - Significant rework of documentation: API docs are now generated
1445 using Sphinx; manpage and user guide now use more "standard"
1446 markup elements (which could facilitate later conversion to a
1447 different doc format, should that choice be made); significant
1448 rewordings in manpage. Manpage Examples moved to an external
1449 repository / website (scons-cookbook.readthedocs.io).
1450 - Clean up test harness and tests' use of subdir, file_fixture and
1452 - SubstitutionEnvironment and OverrideEnvironment now have keys()
1453 and values() methods to better emulate a dict (already had items()).
1454 - Rename internal Warning base class to SConsWarning to avoid any
1455 possible confusion with Python's own Warning class.
1458 RELEASE 3.1.2 - Mon, 17 Dec 2019 02:06:27 +0000
1460 From Edoardo Bezzeccheri
1461 - Added debug option "action_timestamps" which outputs to stdout the absolute start and end time for each target.
1464 - Fix suncxx tool (Oracle Studio compiler) when using Python 3. Previously would throw an exception.
1465 Resolved by properly handling tool version string output as unicode.
1468 - Resolved a typo in engine.SCons.Tool
1471 - Resolved a race condition in multithreaded Windows builds with Python 2
1472 in the case where a child process is spawned while a Python action has a
1473 file open. Original author: Ryan Beasley.
1474 - Added memoization support for calls to Environment.Value() in order to
1475 improve performance of repeated calls.
1479 - Update Command() function to accept target_scanner, source_factory, and target_factory arguments.
1480 This makes Command act more like a one-off builder.
1483 - Added support for "-imacros" to ParseFlags
1486 - Fix CheckFunc detection code for Visual 2019. Some functions
1487 (e.g. memmove) were incorrectly recognized as not available.
1490 - Fix stacktrace when using SCons with Python 3.5+ and SunOS/Solaris related tools.
1492 From Philipp Maierhöfer:
1493 - Avoid crash with UnicodeDecodeError on Python 3 when a Latex log file in
1494 non-UTF-8 encoding (e.g. containing umlauts in Latin-1 encoding when
1495 the fontenc package is included with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}) is read.
1497 From Mathew Robinson:
1498 - Improved threading performance by ensuring NodeInfo is shared
1499 across threads. Results in ~13% improvement for parallel builds
1500 (-j# > 1) with many shared nodes.
1501 - Improve performance of Entry.disambiguate() by making check for
1502 most common case first, preventing unnecessary IO.
1503 - Improved DAG walk performance by reducing unnecessary work when
1504 there are no un-visited children.
1507 - Replace instances of string find method with "in" checks where
1508 the index from find() was not used.
1509 - CmdStringHolder fix from issue #3428
1510 - Turn previously deprecated debug options into failures:
1511 --debug=tree, --debug=dtree, --debug=stree, --debug=nomemoizer.
1512 - Experimental New Feature: Enable caching MSVC configuration
1513 If SCONS_CACHE_MSVC_CONFIG shell environment variable is set,
1514 SCons will cache the results of past calls to vcvarsall.bat to
1515 a file; integrates with existing memoizing of such vars.
1516 On vs2019 saves 5+ seconds per SCons invocation, which really
1517 helps test suite runs.
1518 - Remove deprecated SourceSignatures, TargetSignatures
1519 - Remove deprecated Builder keywords: overrides and scanner
1520 - Remove deprecated env.Copy
1521 - Remove deprecated BuildDir plus SConscript keyword build_dir
1522 - A number of documentation improvements.
1525 RELEASE 3.1.1 - Mon, 07 Aug 2019 20:09:12 -0500
1527 From William Deegan:
1528 - Remove obsoleted references to DeciderNeedsNode which could cause crash when using --debug=explain
1531 - Add Fix and test for crash in 3.1.0 when using Decider('MD5-timestamp') and --debug=explain
1534 - Added -fmerge-all-constants to flags that get included in both CCFLAGS and LINKFLAGS.
1536 From Mathew Robinson:
1537 - Fix issue #3415 - Update remaining usages of EnvironmentError to SConsEnvironmentError
1538 this patch fixes issues introduced in 3.1.0 where any of the
1539 following would cause SCons to error and exit:
1540 - CacheDir not write-able
1541 - JSON encoding errors for CacheDir config
1542 - JSON decoding errors for CacheDir config
1544 RELEASE 3.1.0 - Mon, 20 Jul 2019 16:59:23 -0700
1547 - Code to supply correct version-specifier argument to vswhere for
1548 VS version selection.
1550 From William Deegan:
1551 - Enhanced --debug=explain output. Now the separate components of the dependency list are split up
1554 scons: rebuilding `file3' because:
1555 the dependency order changed:
1562 Old:/usr/bin/python New:/usr/bin/python
1563 - Fix Issue #3350 - SCons Exception EnvironmentError is conflicting with Python's EnvironmentError.
1564 - Fix spurious rebuilds on second build for cases where builder has > 1 target and the source file
1565 is generated. This was causing the > 1th target to not have it's implicit list cleared when the source
1566 file was actually built, leaving an implicit list similar to follows for 2nd and higher target
1567 ['/usr/bin/python', 'xxx', 'yyy', 'zzz']
1568 This was getting persisted to SConsign and on rebuild it would be corrected to be similar to this
1569 ['zzz', 'yyy', 'xxx', '/usr/bin/python']
1570 Which would trigger a rebuild because the order changed.
1571 The fix involved added logic to mark all shared targets as peers and then ensure they're implicit
1572 list is all cleared together.
1573 - Fix Issue #3349 - SCons Exception EnvironmentError is conflicting with Python's EnvironmentError.
1574 Renamed to SConsEnvironmentError
1575 - Fix Issue #3350 - mslink failing when too many objects. This is resolved by adding TEMPFILEARGJOIN variable
1576 which specifies what character to join all the argements output into the tempfile. The default remains a space
1577 when mslink, msvc, or mslib tools are loaded they change the TEMPFILEARGJOIN to be a line separator (\r\n on win32)
1578 - Fix performance degradation for MD5-timestamp decider. NOTE: This changes the Decider() function arguments.
1580 def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni):
1582 def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni, repo_node):
1583 Where repo_node is the repository (or other) node to use to check if the node is out of date instead of dependency.
1586 - Additional fix to issue #3135 - Also handle 'pure' and 'elemental' type bound procedures
1587 - Fix issue #3135 - Handle Fortran submodules and type bound procedures
1590 - Upgraded and improved Visual Studio solution/project generation code using the MSVSProject builder.
1591 - Added support for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019.
1592 - Added support for the following per-variant parameters to the builder:
1593 - cpppaths: Provides per-variant include paths.
1594 - cppdefines: Provides per-variant preprocessor definitions.
1596 From Michael Hartmann:
1597 - Fix handling of Visual Studio Compilers to properly reject any unknown HOST_PLATFORM or TARGET_PLATFORM
1600 - Added support for Visual Studio 2019 toolset.
1602 From Mathew Robinson:
1603 - Update cache debug output to include cache hit rate.
1604 - No longer unintentionally hide exceptions in Action.py
1605 - Allow builders and pseudo-builders to inherit from OverrideEnvironments
1607 From Leonard de Ruijter:
1608 - Add logic to derive correct version argument to vswhere
1610 From Lukas Schrangl:
1611 - Enable LaTeX scanner to find more than one include per line
1613 From Sergey Torokhov:
1614 - Recognize jdk on Gentoo systems.
1617 - scons-time takes more care closing files and uses safer mkdtemp to avoid
1618 possible races on multi-job runs.
1619 - Use importlib to dynamically load tool and platform modules instead of imp module
1620 - sconsign: default to .sconsign.dblite if no filename is specified.
1621 Be more informative in case of unsupported pickle protocol (py2 only).
1622 - Fix issue #3336 - on Windows, paths were being added to PATH even if
1623 tools were not found in those paths.
1624 - More fixes for newer Java versions (since 9): handle new jdk directory
1625 naming (jdk-X.Y instead of jdkX.Y) on Windows; handle two-digit major
1626 version. Docstrings improved.
1627 - Fixups for pylint: exception types, redefined functions,
1628 globals, etc. Some old code removed to resolve issues (hashlib is
1629 always present on modern Pythons; no longer need the code for
1630 2.5-and-earlier optparse). cmp is not a builtin function in Py3,
1631 drop one (unused) use; replace one. Fix another instance of
1632 renaming to SConsEnvironmentError. Trailing whitespace.
1633 Consistently use not is/in (if not x is y -> if x is not y).
1634 - Add a PY3-only function for setting up the cachedir that should be less
1635 prone to races. Add a hack to the PY2 version (from Issue #3351) to
1636 be less prone to a race in the check for old-style cache.
1637 - Fix coding error in docbook tool only exercised when using python lxml
1638 - Recognize two additional GNU compiler header directory options in
1639 ParseFlags: -iquote and -idirafter.
1640 - Fix more re patterns that contain \ but not specified as raw strings
1641 (affects scanners for D, LaTeX, swig)
1644 RELEASE 3.0.5 - Mon, 26 Mar 2019 15:04:42 -0700
1646 From William Deegan:
1648 - Fix Issue #3283 - Handle using --config=force in combination with Decider('MD5-timestamp').
1649 3.0.2 in fix for issue #2980 added that deciders can throw DeciderNeedsNode exception.
1650 The Configure logic directly calls the decider when using --config=force but wasn't handling
1651 that exception. This would yield minimally configure tests using TryLink() not running and
1652 leaving TypeError Nonetype exception in config.log
1653 - Fix Issue #3303 - Handle --config=force overwriting the Environment passed into Configure()'s
1654 Decider and not clearing it when the configure context is completed.
1655 - Add default paths for yacc tool on windows to include cygwin, mingw, and chocolatey
1656 - Fix issue #2799 - Fix mingw tool to respect SHCCCOMSTR, SHLINKCOMSTR and LDMODULECOMSTR
1657 - Fix Issue #3329 - Add support for MS SDK V10.0A (which is commonly installed with VS2017)
1658 - Fix Issue #3333 - Add support for finding vswhere under 32 bit windows installs.
1660 From Maciej Kumorek:
1661 - Update the MSVC tool to include the nologo flag by default in RCFLAGS
1664 - Change the default for AppendENVPath to delete_existing=0, so path
1665 order will not be changed, unless explicitly set (Issue #3276)
1666 - Fixed bug which threw error when running SCons on windows system with no MSVC installed.
1667 - Update link tool to convert target to node before accessing node member
1668 - Update mingw tool to remove MSVC like nologo CCFLAG
1669 - Add default paths for lex tool on windows to include cygwin, mingw, and chocolatey
1670 - Add lex construction variable LEXUNISTD for turning off unix headers on windows
1671 - Update lex tool to use win_flex on windows if available
1674 - Quiet open file ResourceWarnings on Python >= 3.6 caused by
1675 not using a context manager around Popen.stdout
1676 - Add the textfile tool to the default tool list
1677 - Fix syntax on is/is not clauses: should not use with a literal
1678 - Properly retrieve exit code when catching SystemExit
1679 - scons-time now uses context managers around file opens
1680 - Fix regex patterns that were not specified as raw strings
1682 From Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
1683 - Do not store build host+user name if reproducible builds are wanted
1686 RELEASE 3.0.4 - Mon, 20 Jan 2019 22:49:27 +0000
1689 - Improve finding of Microsoft compiler: add a 'products' wildcard
1690 in case 2017 Build Tools only is installed as it is considered a separate
1691 product from the default Visual Studio
1692 - Add TEMPFILESUFFIX to allow a customizable filename extension, as
1693 described in the patch attached to issue #2431.
1694 - scons.py and sconsign.py stopped working if script called as a symlink
1695 to location in scons-local location.
1696 - Fix issue running scons using a symlink to scons.py in an scons-local dir
1697 - Doc updates around Default(), and the various *TARGETS variables.
1700 - Improved support for VC14.1 and Visual Studio 2017, as well as arm and arm64 targets.
1701 Issues #3268 & Issue #3222
1702 - Initial support for ARM targets with Visual Studio 2017 - Issue #3182 (You must set TARGET_ARCH for this to work)
1703 - Update TempFileMunge class to use PRINT_CMD_LINE_FUNC
1706 - Enhance cpp scanner regex logic to detect if/elif expressions without whitespaces but
1707 parenthesis like "#if(defined FOO)" or "#elif!(BAR)" correctly.
1710 RELEASE 3.0.3 - Mon, 07 Jan 2019 20:05:22 -0400
1711 NOTE: 3.0.2 release was dropped because there was a packaging bug. Please consider all 3.0.2
1714 From William Deegan:
1715 - Fixes to packaging logic. Ensuring the SCons.Tool.clangCommon module is added
1716 to the release packages.
1717 - Modify scons.bat script to check for scons python script without .py extension if no file
1718 scons.py exists. This enables an all platform wheel to work.
1721 - Update doc examples to work with Python 3.5+: map() now returns an iterable instead of a list.
1724 RELEASE 3.0.2 - Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:00:12 -0700
1726 From Bernard Blackham:
1727 - Fixed handling of side-effects in task master (fixes #3013).
1729 From William Deegan:
1730 - Remove long deprecated SCons.Options code and tests. This removes BoolOption,EnumOption,
1731 ListOption,PackageOption, and PathOption which have been replaced by *Variable() many years ago.
1732 - Re-Enable parallel SCons (-j) when running via Pypy
1733 - Move SCons test framework files to testing/framework and remove all references to QMtest.
1734 QMTest has not been used by SCons for some time now.
1735 - Updated logic for mingw and clang on win32 to search default tool install paths if not
1736 found in normal SCons PATH. If the user specifies PATH or tool specific paths they
1737 will be used and the default paths below will be ignored.
1738 - Default path for clang/clangxx : C:\Program Files\LLVM\bin
1739 - Default path for mingw : C:\MinGW\bin and/or C:\mingw-w64\*\mingw64\bin
1740 - Key program to locate mingw : mingw32-make (as the gcc with mingw prefix has no fixed name)
1741 - Fixed issue causing stack trace when python Action function contains a unicode string when being
1743 - Add alternate path to QT install for Centos in qt tool: /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin
1744 - Fix Java tools to search reasonable default paths for Win32, Linux, macOS. Add required paths
1745 for swig and java native interface to JAVAINCLUDES. You should add these to your CPPPATH if you need
1746 to compile with them. This handles spaces in paths in default Java paths on windows.
1747 - Added more java paths to match install for Centos 7 of openjdk
1748 - Fix new logic which populates JAVAINCLUDES to handle the case where javac is not found.
1749 - Fix GH Issue #2580 - # in FRAMEWORKPATH doesn't get properly expanded. The # is left in the
1751 - Fix issue #2980 with credit to Piotr Bartosik (and William Blevins). This is an issue where using
1752 TimeStamp-MD5 Decider and CacheDir can yield incorrect md5's being written into the .sconsign.
1753 The difference between Piotr Bartosik's patch and the current code is that the more complicated
1754 creation of file to csig map is only done when the count of children for the current node doesn't
1755 match the previous count which is loaded from the sconsign.
1756 - Fix issue # 3106 MSVC if using MSVC_BATCH and target dir had a space would fail due to quirk in
1757 MSVC's handling of escaped targetdirs when batch compiling.
1758 - Fix GH Issue #3141 unicode string in a TryAction() with python 2.7 crashes.
1759 - Fix GH Issue #3212 - Use of Py3 and CacheDir + Configure's TryCompile (or likely and Python Value Nodes)
1760 yielded trying to combine strings and bytes which threw exception.
1761 - Fix GH Issue #3225 SCons.Util.Flatten() doesn't handle MappingView's produced by dictionary as return
1762 values from dict().{items(), keys(), values()}.
1763 - Fix GH Issue #3241 - Properly support versioned shared libraries for MacOS. We've also introduced two
1764 new env variables APPLELINK_CURRENT_VERSION and APPLELINK_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION which will specify
1765 what is passed to the linkers -current_version and -compatibility_version flags. If not specified
1766 they will be derived from SHLIBVERSION as such:
1767 - APPLELINK_CURRENT_VERSION = SHLIBVERSION
1768 - APPLELINK_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION = all but the last digit in SHLIBVERSION with .0 appended.
1769 Note that the values of the above will be validated. Valid format for either APPLELINK variable is
1770 X[.Y[.Z]] where 0 <= X <= 65535, 0 <= Y <= 255, 0 <= Z <= 255.
1771 The new variables have been added to the documents and should show up in user guide and manpage.
1772 - Fix GH Issue #3136 no longer wrap io.{BufferedReader,BufferedWriter,BufferedRWPair,BufferedRandom,TextIOWrapper
1773 with logic to set HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT flag on the file handle. Python 3.4+ automatically sets this according
1774 to Python docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#fd-inheritance
1777 - Fix the PATH created by scons.bat (and other .bat files) to provide a normalized
1778 PATH. Some pythons in the 3.6 series are no longer able to handle paths which
1779 have ".." in them and end up crashing. This is done by cd'ing into the directory
1780 we want to add to the path and then using %CD% to give us the normalized directory
1781 See bug filed under Python 3.6: https://bugs.python.org/issue32457.
1782 Note: On Win32 PATH's which have not been normalized may cause undefined behavior
1783 by other executables being run by SCons (or any subprocesses of executables being run by SCons).
1784 Resolving this issue should eliminate that possibility going forward.
1786 From Andrew Featherstone
1787 - Removed unused --warn options from the man page and source code.
1790 - Fix cpp scanner regex logic to treat ifndef for py3.5+. Previously it was
1791 not properly differentiating between if, ifdef, and ifndef.
1793 From Philipp Maierhöfer
1794 - Added a __hash__ method to the class SCons.Subst.Literal. Required when substituting Literal
1795 objects when SCons runs with Python 3.
1796 - Added missing FORTRANMODDIRPREFIX to the gfortran tool.
1798 From Matthew Marinets:
1799 - Fixed an issue that caused the Java emitter to incorrectly parse arguments to constructors that
1800 implemented a class.
1802 From Fredrik Medley:
1803 - Fix exception when printing of EnviromentError messages.
1804 Specifically, this fixes error reporting of the race condition when
1805 initializing the cache which error previously was hidden.
1808 - Updated Jar builder to handle nodes and directories better
1809 - Updated Jar builder to flatten source list which could contain embedded lists
1810 - Removed some magic numbers from jar.py on behalf of Mats Wichmann (mats@linux.com)
1811 - Set the pickling protocal back to highest which was causing issues
1812 with variant dir tests. This will cause issues if reading sconsigns
1813 pickled with the previous lower protocol.
1814 - Updated swig to setup default paths for windows
1815 - Updated gettext tools to setup default paths for windows with Cygwin/MinGW setups
1816 - Add common location for default paths for cygwin and mingw in Platform modules
1817 - Updated YACC tool to work on windows with Cygwin/MinGW setups
1818 - Set the pickling protocal back to highest which was causing issues
1819 with variant dir tests. This will cause issues if reading sconsigns
1820 pickled with the previous lower protocol.
1821 - Updated FS.py to handle removal of splitunc function from python 3.7
1822 - Updated the vc.py to ignore MSVS versions where no compiler could be found
1824 From Gary Oberbrunner:
1825 - Fix bug when Installing multiple subdirs outside the source tree
1826 - fix to_str to handle None without raising exception
1827 - Fix -jN for python 3.7
1829 From Jonathon Reinhart:
1830 - Replace all instances of `int main()` in C code with `int main(void)`.
1831 Specifically, this fixes the test cases use by Configure.CheckCC() which
1832 would fail when using -Wstrict-prototypes.
1834 From Zachary Tessler:
1835 - Fix calculation of signatures for FunctionActions that contain list (or set,...)
1836 comprehensions whose expressions involve constant literals. Those constants had
1837 been ignored in signatures, so changing them did not cause targets to be rebuilt.
1840 - In the testing framework, module TestCommon, fixed must_contain(),
1841 must_not_contain(), and related methods of TestCommon class to work with
1842 substrings located at zero offset.
1843 - Added virtualenv support. A new function Virtualenv() determines whether
1844 SCons runs in a virtualenv. The search PATH may also be extended to
1845 prefer executables from the current virtualenv over the ones provided by
1846 base environment. New option --enable-virtualenv provided to import some
1847 virtualenv-related variables to SCons and extend every env['ENV']['PATH']
1848 automatically. New option --ignore-virtualenv disables this. Two
1849 environment variables, SCONS_ENABLE_VIRTUALENV and
1850 SCONS_IGNORE_VIRTUALENV are supported for the same purpose.
1853 - Add SConstruct.py, Sconstruct.py, sconstruct.py to the search path for the root SConstruct file.
1854 Allows easier debugging within Visual Studio
1855 - Change setup.py to change the install directory (via pip, or setup.py install) from scons-#.#.#
1856 to scons (Yielding <pythondir>/lib/scons/SCons/ instead of <pythondir>/lib/scons/SCons-#.#.#/).
1857 This changes SCons to better comply with normal Python installation practices.
1860 - Recognize new java 9, 10, 11 (as 9.0 and 10.0, 11.0)
1861 - Updated manpage scons.xml to fix a nested list problem
1862 - Updated doc terminiology: use prepend instead of append as appropriate
1863 - XML validity fixes from SConstruct.py change
1864 - Update wiki links to new github location
1865 - Update bug links to new github location
1866 - Make it easier for SConscript() call to fail on missing script.
1867 It was possible to call SCons.Warnings.warningAsException
1868 (not documented as a user API) to make all warnings fail. Now
1869 SConscript can take an optional must_exist flag which if true fails
1870 if the script does not exist. Not failing on missing script is
1871 now considered deprecated, and the first instance will print a
1872 deprecation message. It is now also possible to flip the scons
1873 behavior (which still defaults to warn, not fail) by calling
1874 SCons.Script.set_missing_sconscript_error, which is also not a
1875 documented interface at the moment.
1876 - Convert TestCmd.read to use with statement on open (quiets 17 py3 warnings)
1877 - Quiet py3 warning in UtilTests.py
1878 - Fix tests specifying octal constants for py3
1879 - Fix must_contain tests for py3
1880 - RPM package generation:
1881 - Fix supplying a build architecture
1882 - Disable auto debug package generation on certain rpmbuild versions
1883 - Adjust some tests to only supply build-id file on certain rpmbuild versions
1884 - Tests now use a file fixture for the repeated (trivial) main.c program.
1885 - Document and comment cleanup.
1886 - Added new Environment Value X_RPM_EXTRADEFS to supply custom settings
1887 to the specfile without adding specific logic for each one to scons.
1888 - The test for Python.h needed by swig tests is moved to get_python_platform
1889 so it does not have to be repeated in every test; picks up one failure
1890 which did not make the (previously needed) check. Windows version
1891 of get_python_platform needed some rework in case running in virtualenv.
1892 - If test opens os.devnull, register with atexit so file opens do not leak.
1893 - Fix bugs in Win32 process spawn logic to handle OSError exception correctly.
1894 - Use time.perf_counter instead of time.clock if it exists.
1895 time.clock deprecated since py3.3, due to remove in 3.8. deprecation
1896 warnings from py3.7 were failing a bunch of tests on Windows since they
1897 mess up expected stderr.
1898 - Prefer Py3's inspect.getfullargspec over deprecated inspect.getargspec.
1899 Switched to "new" (standard in Py2.7) usage of receiving a namedtuple -
1900 we were unpacking to a four-tuple, two of the items of which were unused;
1901 getfullargspec returns a named tuple with seven elements so it is a
1902 cleaner drop-in replacement using the namedtuple.
1903 - Updated the test-framework.rst documentation.
1904 - Remove obsoleted internal implementaiton of OrderedDict.
1905 - Test for tar packaging fixups
1906 - Stop using deprecated unittest asserts
1907 - messages in strip-install-dir test now os-neutral
1908 - Add xz compression format to packaging choices.
1909 - Syntax cleanups - trailing blanks, use "is" to compare with None, etc.
1910 Three uses of variables not defined are changed.
1911 - Some script changes in trying to find scons engine
1912 - Update (pep8) configure-cache script, add a --show option.
1913 - Fix for a couple of "what if tool not found" exceptions in framework.
1914 - Add Textfile/Substfile to default environment. (issue #3147)
1915 - sconsign: a couple of python3 fixes; be more tolerant of implicit
1916 entries which have no signatures; minor PEP8 changes.
1917 - Fix a couple of type mistakes (list-> string, filter type -> list)
1918 - Fix a couple of type mistakes in packaging tools: list-> string in msi,
1919 filter type -> list in ipk
1921 From Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
1922 - Update SCons' internal scons build logic to allow overriding build date
1923 with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for SCons itself.
1924 - Change the datestamps in SCons' docs and embedded in code use ISO 8601 format and UTC
1927 - Typo in customized decider example in user guide
1928 - Replace usage of unittest.TestSuite with unittest.main() (fix #3113)
1930 RELEASE 3.0.1 - Mon, 12 Nov 2017 15:31:33 -0700
1933 - Jar can take multiple targets, and will make a duplicate jar from the sources for each target
1934 - Added some warnings in case the Jar builder makes an implicit target
1935 - Added Jar method and changed jar build to be more specific. Jar method will take in
1936 directories or classes as source. Added more tests to JAR to ensure the jar was
1937 packaged with the correct compiled class files.
1938 - Added a No result test case to handle bug which seems unrelated to java in the
1939 swig-dependencies.py test, more info here: http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2907
1940 - Added a travis script to test on ubuntu trusty now that the project is on github
1941 so that Continuus Integration tests can be run automatically. It tests most case and considers
1942 no result a pass as well. Improving this script can install more dependincies allowing for more
1946 - Updated the Jar Builder tool in Tool/__init__.py so that is doesn't force class files as
1947 sources, allowing directories to be passed, which was causing test/Java/JAR.py to fail.
1949 From William Deegan:
1950 - Fix issue where code in utility routine to_String_for_subst() had code whose result was never
1952 (Found by: James Rinkevich https://pairlist4.pair.net/pipermail/scons-users/2017-October/006358.html )
1953 - Fixed Variables.GenerateHelpText() to now use the sort parameter. Due to incorrect 2to3 fixer changes
1954 8 years ago it was being used as a boolean parameter. Now you can specify sort to be a callable, or boolean
1955 value. (True = normal sort). Manpage also updated.
1956 - Fixed Tool loading logic from exploding sys.path with many site_scons/site_tools prepended on py3.
1957 - Added additional output with time to process each SConscript file when using --debug=time.
1960 - Fixed a regression in scons-3.0.0 where "from __future__ import print_function" was imposed
1961 on the scope where SConstruct is executed, breaking existing builds using PY 2.7.
1963 From William Deegan:
1964 - Fix broken subst logic where a string with "$$(abc)" was being treated as "$(abc) and the
1965 logic for removing the signature escapes was then failing because there was no closing "$)".
1966 This was introduced by a pull request to allow recursive variable evaluations to yield a string
1967 such as "$( $( some stuff $) $)".
1969 From Zachary Tessler:
1970 - Fix incorrect warning for repeated identical builder calls that use overrides
1973 RELEASE 3.0.0 - Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:32:04 -0700
1975 NOTE: This is a major release. You should expect that some targets may rebuild when upgrading.
1976 Significant changes in some python action signatures. Also switching between PY 2.7 and PY 3.5, 3.6
1977 will cause rebuilds.
1980 From William Blevins:
1981 - Updated D language scanner support to latest: 2.071.1. (PR #1924)
1982 https://dlang.org/spec/module.html accessed 11 August 2016
1984 - Added support for selective imports: "import A : B, C;" -> A
1985 - Added support for renamed imports. "import B = A;" -> A
1986 - Supports valid combinations: "import A, B, CCC = C, DDD = D : EEE = FFF;" -> A, B, C, D
1988 - May find new (previously missed) Dlang dependencies.
1989 - May cause rebuild after upgrade due to dependency changes.
1990 - Updated Fortran-related tests to pass under GCC 5/6.
1991 - Fixed SCons.Tool.Packaging.rpm.package source nondeterminism across builds.
1993 From William Deegan:
1994 - Removed deprecated tools CVS, Perforce, BitKeeper, RCS, SCCS, Subversion.
1995 - Removed deprecated module SCons.Sig
1996 - Added prioritized list of xsltproc tools to docbook. The order will now be as
1997 follows: xsltproc, saxon, saxon-xslt, xalan (with first being highest priority, first
1999 - Fixed MSVSProject example code (http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2979)
2000 - Defined MS SDK 10.0 and Changed VS 2015 to use SDK 10.0
2001 - Changes to Action Function and Action Class signiture creation. NOTE: This will cause rebuilds
2002 for many builds when upgrading to SCons 3.0
2003 - Fixed Bug #3027 - "Cross Compiling issue: cannot override ranlib"
2004 - Fixed Bug #3020 - "Download link in user guide wrong. python setup.py install --version-lib broken"
2005 - Fixed Bug #2486 - Added SetOption('silent',True) - Previously this value was not allowed to be set.
2006 - Fixed Bug #3040 - Non-unicode character in CHANGES.txt
2007 - Fixed Bug #2622 - AlwaysBuild + MSVC regression.
2008 - Fixed Bug #3025 - (Credit to Florian : User flow86 on tigris) - Fix typo JAVACLASSSUFIX should have been
2013 - Added the capability to build Windows Store Compatible libraries that can be used
2014 with Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps and published to the store
2017 - Add basic support for PyPy (by deleting __slots__ from Node with a
2018 metaclass on PyPy); wrap most-used open() calls in 'with' statements to
2019 avoid too many open files.
2020 - Add __main__.py for `python -m SCons` in case it is on PYTHONPATH.
2021 - Always use highest available pickle protocol for efficiency.
2022 - Remove unused command line fallback for the zip tool.
2024 From Gaurav Juvekar:
2025 - Fix issue #2832: Expand construction variables in 'chdir' argument of builders. (PR #463)
2026 - Fix issue #2910: Make --tree=all handle Unicode. (PR #427)
2027 - Fix issue #2788: Fix typo in documentation example for sconf. (PR #388)
2029 From Alexey Klimkin:
2030 - Use memoization to optimize PATH evaluation across all dependencies per
2032 - Use set() where it is applicable (PR #344)
2035 - Fixed msvs.py for Visual Studio Express editions that would report
2036 "Error : ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 10.0Exp".
2039 - Update LaTeX scanner to understand \import and related commands
2041 From Steve Robinson:
2042 - Add support for Visual Studio 2017. This support requires vswhere.exe a helper
2043 tool installed with newer installs of 2017. SCons expects it to be located at
2044 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe"
2045 It can be downloaded separately at
2046 https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere
2049 - Allow nested $( ... $) sections
2052 - Fixed the issue with LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS reported by Tim Jenness
2053 (https://pairlist4.pair.net/pipermail/scons-users/2016-May/004893.html).
2054 An error was causing "-Wl,Bsymbolic" being added to linker's command-line
2055 even when there was no specified value in LDMODULEVERSION and thus no
2056 need for the flags to be specified.
2057 - Added LoadableModule to the list of global functions (DefaultEnvironment
2060 From Manish Vachharajani:
2061 - Update debian rules, compat, and control to not use features
2062 deprecated or obsolete in later versions of debhelpers
2063 - Update python version to 2.7 in debian/control
2066 - Fixed PCHPDBFLAGS causing a deprecation warning on MSVC v8 and later when
2067 using PCHs and PDBs together.
2071 - Added nested / namespace tool support
2072 - Added a small fix to the python3 tool loader when loading a tool as a package
2073 - Added additional documentation to the user manual on using toolpaths with the environment
2074 This includes the use of sys.path to search for tools installed via pip or package managers
2075 - Added support for a PyPackageDir function for use with the toolpath
2078 - Reordered the default D tools from "dmd, gdc, ldc" to "dmd, ldc, gdc".
2079 - Add a ProgramAllAtOnce builder to the dmd, ldc, and gdc tools. (PR #448)
2080 - Remove a file name exception for very old Fedora LDC installation.
2081 - gdc can now handle building shared objects (tested for version 6.3.0).
2082 - Remove establishing the SharedLibrary builder in the dmd, ldc, and gdc
2083 tools, must now include the ar tool to get this builder as is required for
2084 other compiler tools.
2085 - Add clang and clang++ tools based on Paweł Tomulik's work.
2087 RELEASE 2.5.1 - Mon, 03 Nov 2016 13:37:42 -0400
2089 From William Deegan:
2090 - Add scons-configure-cache.py to packaging. It was omitted
2092 From Alexey Klimkin:
2093 - Use memoization to optimize PATH evaluation across all dependencies per
2096 RELEASE 2.5.0 - Mon, 09 Apr 2016 11:27:42 -0700
2099 - Removed a lot of compatibility methods and workarounds
2100 for Python versions < 2.7, in order to prepare the work
2101 towards a combined 2.7/3.x version. (PR #284)
2102 Also fixed the default arguments for the print_tree and
2103 render_tree methods. (PR #284, too)
2105 From William Blevins:
2106 - Added support for cross-language dependency scanning;
2107 SCons now respects scanner keys for implicit dependencies.
2108 - Notes for SCons users with heterogeneous systems.
2109 - May find new (previously missed) dependencies.
2110 - May cause rebuild after upgrade due to dependency changes.
2111 - May find new dependency errors (EG. cycles).
2112 - Discovered in some of the SCons QT tests.
2113 - Resolved missing cross-language dependencies for
2114 SWIG bindings (fixes #2264).
2115 - Corrected typo in User Guide for Scanner keyword. (PR #2959)
2116 - Install builder interacts with scanner found in SCANNERS differently.
2117 - Previous: Install builder recursively scanned implicit dependencies
2118 for scanners from SCANNER, but not for built-in (default) scanners.
2119 - Current: Install builder will not scan for implicit dependencies via
2120 either scanner source. This optimizes some Install builder behavior
2121 and brings orthogonality to Install builder scanning behavior.
2123 From William Deegan:
2124 - Add better messaging when two environments have
2125 different actions for the same target (Bug #2024)
2126 - Fix issue only with MSVC and Always build where targets
2127 marked AlwaysBuild wouldn't make it into CHANGED_SOURCES
2128 and thus yield an empty compile command line. (Bug #2622)
2129 - Fix posix platform escaping logic to properly handle paths
2130 with parens in them "()". (Bug #2225)
2133 - Intel Compiler 2016 (Linux/Mac) update for tool directories.
2135 From Adarsh Sanjeev:
2136 - Fix for issue #2494: Added string support for Chmod function.
2139 - change cache to use 2 character subdirectories, rather than one character,
2140 so as not to give huge directories for large caches, a situation which
2141 causes issues for NFS.
2142 For existing caches, you will need to run the scons-configure-cache.py
2143 script to update them to the new format. You will get a warning every time
2144 you build until you co this.
2145 - Fix a bunch of unit tests on windows
2147 RELEASE 2.4.1 - Mon, 07 Nov 2015 10:37:21 -0700
2149 From Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis:
2150 - Fix for Bug # 2791 - Setup.py fails unnecessarily under Jython.
2153 - Fixed license of SVG titlepage files in the context of Debian
2154 packaging, such that they allow for commercial use too (#2985).
2156 From William Blevins:
2157 - InstallVersionedLib now available in the DefaultEnvironment context.
2158 - Improves orthogonality of use cases between different Install functions.
2161 - Added new configure check, CheckProg, to check for
2162 existence of a program.
2164 From Andrew Featherstone:
2165 - Fix for issue #2840 - Fix for two environments specifying same target with different
2166 actions not throwing hard error. Instead SCons was incorrectly issuing a warning
2170 - Add support `Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7'
2171 Compiler can be obtained at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266
2173 From Florian Miedniak:
2174 - Fixed tigris issue #3011: Glob() excludes didn't work when used with VariantDir(duplicate=0)
2176 From William Roberts:
2177 - Fix bug 2831 and allow Help() text to be appended to AddOption() help.
2180 - Reimplemented versioning for shared libraries, with the following effects
2181 - Fixed tigris issues #3001, #3006.
2182 - Fixed several other issues not reported to tigris, including:
2183 issues with versioned libraries in subdirectories with tricky names,
2184 issues with versioned libraries and variant directories,
2185 issue with soname not being injected to library when using D linkers,
2186 - Switched to direct symlinks instead of daisy-chained ones -- soname and
2187 development symlinks point directly to the versioned shared library now),
2189 https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html
2190 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Devel_Packages
2191 https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-requests/247/new-versioned-libraries-gnulink-cyglink/diff#comment-10063929
2192 - New construction variables to allow override default behavior: SONAME,
2193 SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS, _SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS, SHLIBNOVERSIONSYMLINKS,
2194 LDMODULEVERSION, LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS, _LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS,
2195 LDMODULENOVERSIONSYMLINKS.
2196 - Changed logic used to configure the versioning machinery from
2197 platform-centric to linker-oriented.
2198 - The SHLIBVERSION/LDMODULEVERSION variables are no longer validated by
2199 SCons (more freedom to users).
2200 - InstallVersionedLib() doesn't use SHLIBVERSION anymore.
2201 - Enchanced docs for the library versioning stuff.
2202 - New tests for versioned libraries.
2203 - Library versioning is currently implemented for the following linker
2204 tools: 'cyglink', 'gnulink', 'sunlink'.
2205 - Fix to swig tool - pick-up 'swig', 'swig3.0' and 'swig2.0' (in order).
2206 - Fix to swig tool - respect env['SWIG'] provided by user.
2210 RELEASE 2.4.0 - Mon, 21 Sep 2015 08:56:00 -0700
2213 - Switched several core classes to use "slots", to
2214 reduce the overall memory consumption in large
2215 projects (fixes #2180, #2178, #2198)
2216 - Memoizer counting uses decorators now, instead of
2217 the old metaclasses approach.
2219 From Andrew Featherstone
2220 - Fixed typo in SWIGPATH description
2222 RELEASE 2.3.6 - Mon, 31 Jul 2015 14:35:03 -0700
2225 - Added support for Visual Studio 2015
2227 RELEASE 2.3.5 - Mon, 17 Jun 2015 21:07:32 -0700
2229 From Stephen Pollard:
2230 - Documentation fixes for libraries.xml and
2231 builders-writing.xml (#2989 and #2990)
2233 From William Deegan:
2234 - Extended docs for InstallVersionedLib/SharedLibrary,
2235 and added SKIP_WIN_PACKAGES argument to build script
2236 bootstrap.py (PR #230, #3002).
2238 From William Blevins:
2239 - Fixed symlink support (PR #227, #2395).
2240 - Updated debug-count test case (PR #229).
2242 From Alexey Klimkin:
2243 - Fixed incomplete LIBS flattening and substitution in
2244 Program scanner(PR #205, #2954).
2247 - Added new method rentry_exists_on_disk to Node.FS (PR #193).
2250 - Fixed several D tests under the different OS.
2251 - Add support for f08 file extensions for Fortran 2008 code.
2253 From Anatoly Techtonik:
2254 - Show --config choices if no argument is specified (PR #202).
2255 - Fixed build crash when XML toolchain isn't installed, and
2256 activated compression for ZIP archives.
2258 From Alexandre Feblot:
2259 - Fix for VersionedSharedLibrary under 'sunos' platform.
2260 - Fixed dll link with precompiled headers on MSVC 2012
2261 - Added an 'exclude' parameter to Glob()
2263 From Laurent Marchelli:
2264 - Support for multiple cmdargs (one per variant) in VS project files.
2265 - Various improvements for TempFileMunge class.
2266 - Added an implementation for Visual Studio users files (PR #209).
2269 - Added support for the 'PlatformToolset' tag in VS project files (#2978).
2272 - Added support for '-isystem' to ParseFlags.
2274 RELEASE 2.3.4 - Mon, 27 Sep 2014 12:50:35 -0400
2276 From Bernhard Walle and Dirk Baechle:
2277 - Fixed the interactive mode, in connection with
2278 Configure contexts (#2971).
2280 From Anatoly Techtonik:
2281 - Fix EnsureSConsVersion warning when running packaged version
2284 - Fix D tools for building shared libraries
2286 RELEASE 2.3.3 - Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:08:33 -0400
2289 - Fixed false line length calculation in the TempFileMunge class (#2970).
2291 From Gary Oberbrunner:
2292 - Improve SWIG detection
2295 - Fix regression on Windows in D language update
2297 From Neal Becker and Stefan Zimmermann:
2298 - Python 3 port and compatibility
2300 From Anatoly Techtonik:
2301 - Do not fail on EnsureSConsVersion when running from checkout
2303 From Kendrick Boyd and Rob Managan:
2304 - Fixed the newglossary action to work with VariantDir (LaTeX).
2306 From Manuel Francisco Naranjo:
2307 - Added a default for the BUILDERS environment variable,
2308 to prevent not defined exception on a Clone().
2310 From Andrew Featherstone:
2311 - Added description of CheckTypeSize method (#1991).
2312 - Fixed handling of CPPDEFINE var in Append()
2313 for several list-dict combinations (#2900).
2315 From William Blevins:
2316 - Added test for Java derived-source dependency tree generation.
2317 - Added Copy Action symlink soft-copy support (#2395).
2318 - Various contributions to the documentation (UserGuide).
2323 - Update XML doc editor configuration
2324 - Fix: Allow varlist to be specified as list of strings for Actions (#2754)
2326 From veon on bitbucket:
2327 - Fixed handling of nested ifs in CPP scanner PreProcessor class.
2330 - Support for Visual Studio 2013 (12.0)
2332 From Michael Haubenwallner:
2333 - Respect user's CC/CXX values; don't always overwrite in generate()
2334 - Delegate linker Tool.exists() to CC/CXX Tool.exists().
2337 - Updated the TeX builder to support use of the -synctex=1
2338 option and the files it creates.
2339 - Updated the TeX builder to correctly clean auxiliary files when
2340 the biblatex package is used.
2342 From Gary Oberbrunner:
2343 - get default RPM architecture more robustly when building RPMs
2346 - Fixed NoClean() for multi-target builders (#2353).
2349 - Fix SConf tests that write output
2352 - Revamp of the D language support. Tools for DMD, GDC and LDC provided
2353 and integrated with the C and C++ linking. NOTE: This is only tested
2354 with D v2. Support for D v1 is now deprecated.
2356 From Anatoly Techtonik:
2357 - Several improvements for running scons.py from source:
2358 * engine files form source directory take priority over all other
2360 * message about scons.py running from source is removed to fix tests
2361 that were failing because of this extra line in the output
2362 * error message when SCons import fails now lists lookup paths
2363 - Remove support for QMTest harness from runtest.py
2364 - Remove RPM and m4 from default tools on Windows
2365 - BitKeeper, CVS, Perforce, RCS, SCCS are deprecated from default
2366 tools and will be removed in future SCons versions to speed up
2367 SCons initialization (it will still be possible to use these tools
2370 From Sye van der Veen:
2371 - Support for Visual Studio 12.0Exp, and fixes for earlier MSVS
2377 From Andrew Featherstone:
2378 - Added support for EPUB output format to the DocBook tool.
2381 - Stop leaking file handles to subprocesses by switching to using subprocess
2383 - Allow multiple options to be specified with --debug=a,b,c
2384 - Add support for a readonly cache (--cache-readonly)
2385 - Always print stats if requested
2386 - Generally try harder to print out a message on build errors
2387 - Adds a switch to warn on missing targets
2388 - Add Pseudo command to mark targets which should not exist after
2392 - Check for 8.3 filenames on cygwin as well as win32 to make variant_dir work properly.
2394 From Alexandre Feblot:
2395 - Make sure SharedLibrary depends on all dependent libs (by depending on SHLINKCOM)
2397 From Stefan Sperling:
2398 - Fixed the setup of linker flags for a versioned SharedLibrary
2399 under OpenBSD (#2916).
2401 From Antonio Cavallo:
2402 - Improve error if Visual Studio bat file not found.
2404 From Manuel Francisco Naranjo:
2405 - Allow Subst.Literal string objects to be compared with each other,
2406 so they work better in AddUnique() and Remove().
2408 From David Rothenberger:
2409 - Added cyglink linker that uses Cygwin naming conventions for
2410 shared libraries and automatically generates import libraries.
2413 - Update bootstrap.py so it can be used from any dir, to run
2414 SCons from a source (non-installed) dir.
2415 - Count statistics of instances are now collected only when
2416 the --debug=count command-line option is used (#2922).
2417 - Added release_target_info() to File nodes, which helps to
2418 reduce memory consumption in clean builds and update runs
2420 - Fixed the handling of long options in the command-line
2422 - Fixed misspelled variable in intelc.py (#2928).
2424 From Gary Oberbrunner:
2425 - Test harness: fail_test() can now print a message to help debugging.
2427 From Anatoly Techtonik:
2428 - Require rpmbuild when building SCons package.
2429 - Print full stack on certain errors, for debugging.
2430 - Improve documentation for Textfile builder.
2432 From William Deegan:
2433 - VS2012 & VS2010 Resolve initialization issues by adding path to reg.exe
2434 in shell used to run batch files.
2435 - MSVC Support fixed defaulting TARGET_ARCH to HOST_ARCH. It should be
2436 None if not explicitly set.
2437 - MSVC Fixed issue where if more than one Architectures compilers are
2438 detected, it would take the last one found, and not the first.
2441 - Added optional ZIPROOT to Zip tool.
2444 - Replaced old SGML-based documentation toolchain with a more modern
2445 approach, that also requires less external dependencies (programs and
2446 Python packages). Added a customized Docbook XSD for strict validation of
2447 all input XML files.
2449 From Luca Falavigna:
2450 - Fixed spelling errors in MAN pages (#2897).
2452 From Michael McDougall:
2453 - Fixed description of ignore_case for EnumVariable in the
2456 RELEASE 2.3.0 - Mon, 02 Mar 2013 13:22:29 -0400
2458 From Anatoly Techtonik:
2459 - Added ability to run scripts/scons.py directly from source checkout
2460 - Hide deprecated --debug={dtree,stree,tree} from --help output
2461 - Error messages from option parser now include hints about valid choices
2462 - Cleaned up some Python 1.5 and pre-2.3 code, so don't expect SCons
2463 to run on anything less than Python 2.4 anymore
2464 - Several fixes for runtest.py:
2465 * exit with an error if no tests were found
2466 * removed --noqmtest option - this behavior is by default
2467 * replaced `-o FILE --xml` combination with `--xml FILE`
2468 * changed `-o, --output FILE` option to capture stdout/stderr output
2470 - Remove os_spawnv_fix.diff patch required to enable parallel builds
2471 support prior to Python 2.2
2474 - Fix WiX Tool to use .wixobj rather than .wxiobj for compiler output
2475 - Support building with WiX releases after 2.0
2477 From Alexey Klimkin:
2478 - Fix nested LIBPATH expansion by flattening sequences in subst_path.
2480 From eyan on Bitbucket:
2481 - Print target name with command execution time with --debug=time
2483 From Thomas Berg and Evgeny Podjachev:
2484 - Fix subprocess spawning on Windows. Work around a Windows
2485 bug that can crash python occasionally when using -jN. (#2449)
2488 - Updated test framework to support dir and file fixtures and
2489 added ability to test external (out-of-tree) tools (#2862).
2490 See doc in QMTest/test-framework.rst.
2491 - Fixed several errors in the test suite (Java paths, MSVS version
2492 detection, Tool import), additionally
2493 * provided MinGW command-line support for the CXX, AS and
2495 * refactored the detection of the gcc version and the according
2496 Fortran startup library,
2497 * provided a new module rpmutils.py, wrapping the RPM naming rules
2498 for target files and further hardware-dependent info (compatibility,
2499 compiler flags, ...),
2500 * added new test methods must_exist_one_of() and
2501 must_not_exist_any_of() and
2502 * removed Aegis support from runtest.py. (#2872)
2504 From Gary Oberbrunner:
2505 - Add -jN support to runtest.py to run tests in parallel
2506 - Add MSVC10 and MSVC11 support to get_output low-level bat script runner.
2507 - Fix MSVS solution generation for VS11, and fixed tests.
2510 - Updated the TeX builder to support the \newglossary command
2511 in LaTeX's glossaries package and the files it creates.
2512 - Improve support for new versions of biblatex in the TeX builder
2513 so biber is called automatically if biblatex requires it.
2514 - Add SHLIBVERSION as an option that tells SharedLibrary to build
2515 a versioned shared library and create the required symlinks.
2516 Add builder InstallVersionedLib to create the required symlinks
2517 installing a versioned shared library.
2519 RELEASE 2.2.0 - Mon, 05 Aug 2012 15:37:48 +0000
2521 From dubcanada on Bitbucket:
2522 - Fix 32-bit Visual Express C++ on 64-bit Windows (generate 32-bit code)
2525 - Added gettext toolset
2526 - Fixed FindSourceFiles to find final sources (leaf nodes).
2529 - Allow Node objects in Java path (#2825)
2532 - Make Windows not redefine builtin file as un-inheritable (#2857)
2533 - Fix WINDOWS_INSERT_DEF on MinGW (Windows) (#2856)
2535 From smallbub on Bitbucket:
2536 - Fix LINKCOMSTR, SHLINKCOMSTR, and LDMODULECOMSTR on Windows (#2833).
2539 - Make -s (silent mode) be silent about entering subdirs (#2976).
2540 - Fix cloning of builders when cloning environment (#2821).
2542 From Gary Oberbrunner:
2543 - Show valid Visual Studio architectures in error message
2544 when user passes invalid arch.
2546 From Alexey Petruchik:
2547 - Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 11 (both using it
2548 and generating MSVS11 solution files).
2550 From Alexey Klimkin:
2551 - Fixed the Taskmaster, curing spurious build failures in
2552 multi-threaded runs (#2720).
2555 - Improved documentation of command-line variables (#2809).
2556 - Fixed scons-doc.py to properly convert main XML files (#2812).
2559 - Updated the TeX builder to support LaTeX's multibib package.
2560 - Updated the TeX builder to support LaTeX's biblatex package.
2561 - Added support for using biber instead of bibtex by setting
2562 env['BIBTEX'] = 'biber'
2565 - Test for FORTRANPPFILESUFFIXES (#2129).
2568 RELEASE 2.1.0 - Mon, 09 Sep 2011 20:54:57 -0700
2571 - Fix Windows resource compiler scanner to accept DOS line endings.
2574 - Update MSVS documents to remove note indicating that only one
2575 project is currently supported per solution file.
2577 From Grzegorz Bizoń:
2578 - Fix long compile lines in batch mode by using TEMPFILE
2579 - Fix MSVC_BATCH=False (was treating it as true)
2581 From Justin Gullingsrud:
2582 - support -std=c++0x and related CXXFLAGS in pkgconfig (ParseFlags)
2584 From Vincent Beffara:
2585 - Support -dylib_file in pkgconfig (ParseFlags)
2587 From Gary Oberbrunner and Sohail Somani:
2588 - new construction variable WINDOWS_EMBED_MANIFEST to automatically
2589 embed manifests in Windows EXEs and DLLs.
2591 From Gary Oberbrunner:
2592 - Fix Visual Studio project generation when CPPPATH contains Dir nodes
2593 - Ensure Visual Studio project is regenerated when CPPPATH or CPPDEFINES change
2594 - Fix unicode error when using non-ASCII filenames with Copy or Install
2595 - Put RPATH in LINKCOM rather than LINKFLAGS so resetting
2596 LINKFLAGS doesn't kill RPATH
2597 - Fix precompiled headers on Windows when variant dir name has spaces.
2598 - Adding None to an Action no longer fails (just returns original action)
2599 - New --debug=prepare option to show each target as it's being
2600 prepared, whether or not anything needs to be done for it.
2601 - New debug option --debug=duplicate to print a line for each
2602 unlink/relink (or copy) of a variant file from its source file.
2603 - Improve error message for EnumVariables to show legal values.
2604 - Fix Intel compiler to sort versions >9 correctly (esp. on Linux)
2605 - Fix Install() when the source and target are directories and the
2606 target directory exists.
2608 From David Garcia Garzon:
2609 - Fix Delete to be able to delete broken symlinks and dir
2612 From Imran Fanaswala and Robert Lehr:
2613 - Handle .output file generated by bison/yacc properly. Cleaning it
2616 From Antoine Dechaume:
2617 - Handle SWIG file where there is whitespace after the module name
2618 properly. Previously the generated files would include
2622 - Handle Environment in case __semi_deepcopy is None
2626 - Much improved support for Windows UNC paths (\\SERVERNAME).
2628 From Jean-Baptiste Lab:
2630 - Fix problems with appending CPPDEFINES that contain
2631 dictionaries, and related issues with Parse/MergeFlags and
2636 - Fix for an issue with implicit-cache with multiple targets
2637 when dependencies are removed on disk.
2639 From Evgeny Podjachev and Alexey Petruchick:
2641 - Support generation of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (9.0)
2642 and 2010 (10.0) project and solution files.
2646 - Fix a problem when FS Entries which are actually Dirs have builders.
2648 From Luca Falavigna:
2650 - Support Fortran 03
2652 From Gary Oberbrunner:
2654 - Print the path to the SCons package in scons --version
2656 From Jean-Fran�ois Colson:
2658 - Improve Microsoft Visual Studio Solution generation, and fix
2659 various errors in the generated solutions especially when using
2660 MSVS_SCC_PROVIDER, and when generating multiple projects. The
2661 construction variable MSVS_SCC_PROJECT_BASE_PATH, which never
2662 worked properly, is removed. Users can use the new variable
2663 MSVS_SCC_CONNECTION_ROOT instead if desired.
2665 From Anatoly Techtonik:
2667 - Use subprocess in bootstrap.py instead of os.execve to avoid
2668 losing output control on Windows (http://bugs.python.org/issue9148)
2670 - Revert patch for adding SCons to App Paths, because standard cmd
2671 shell doesn't search there. This is confusing, because `scons` can
2672 be executed from explorer, but fail to start from console.
2674 - Fix broken installation with easy_install on Windows (issue #2051)
2675 SCons traditionally installed in a way that allowed to run multiple
2676 versions side by side. This custom logic was incompatible with
2677 easy_install way of doing things.
2679 - Use epydoc module for generating API docs in HTML if command line
2680 utility is not found in PATH. Actual for Windows.
2682 From Alexander Goomenyuk:
2684 - Add .sx to assembly source scanner list so .sx files
2685 get their header file dependencies detected.
2689 - Set module metadata when loading site_scons/site_init.py
2690 so it is treated as a proper module; __doc__, __file__ and
2691 __name__ now refer to the site_init.py file.
2695 - Users Guide updates explaining that Tools can be packages as
2696 well as python modules.
2698 From Gary Oberbrunner:
2700 - New systemwide and per-user site_scons dirs.
2704 - XML fixes in User's Guide.
2705 - Fixed the detection of 'jar' and 'rmic' during
2706 the initialization of the respective Tools (#2730).
2707 - Improved docs for custom Decider functions and
2708 custom Scanner objects (#2711, #2713).
2709 - Corrected SWIG module names for generated *.i files (#2707).
2713 - Fixed a case-sensitivity problem with Fortran modules.
2717 - Added Users Guide example for auto-generated source code
2721 - Fix explicit dependencies (Depends()) on Nodes that don't have
2724 - Fix use of the global Alias() function with command actions.
2728 - Fix the ability to append to default $*FLAGS values (which are
2729 implemented as CLVar instances) in a copied construction environment
2730 without affecting the original construction environment's value.
2734 - Updated the TeX command strings to include a /D on Windows in
2735 case the new directory is on a different drive letter.
2737 - Fixed the LaTeX scanner so dependencies are found in commands that
2738 are broken across lines with a comment or have embedded spaces.
2740 - The TeX builders should now work with tex files that are generated
2741 by another program. Thanks to Hans-Martin von Gaudecker for
2742 isolating the cause of this bug.
2744 - Added support for INDEXSTYLE environment variable so makeindex can
2747 - Added support for the bibunits package so we call bibtex on all
2750 - Add support of finding path information on OSX for TeX applications
2751 MacPorts and Fink paths need to be added by the user
2755 - Add support for DMD version 2 (the phobos2 library).
2757 From William Deegan:
2759 - Add initial support for VS/VC 2010 (express and non-express versions)
2760 - Remove warning for not finding MS VC/VS install.
2761 "scons: warning: No version of Visual Studio compiler found
2762 - C/C++ compilers most likely not set correctly"
2763 - Add support for Linux 3.0
2766 RELEASE 2.0.1 - Mon, 15 Aug 2010 15:46:32 -0700
2770 - Fix XML in documentation.
2774 - Fixed a case-sensitivity problem with Fortran modules.
2778 - Added Users Guide example for auto-generated source code
2782 - Fix explicit dependencies (Depends()) on Nodes that don't have
2787 - Fix the ability to append to default $*FLAGS values (which are
2788 implemented as CLVar instances) in a copied construction environment
2789 without affecting the original construction environment's value.
2793 - Updated the TeX command strings to include a /D on Windows in
2794 case the new directory is on a different drive letter.
2796 - Fixed the LaTeX scanner so dependencies are found in commands that
2797 are broken across lines with a comment or have embedded spaces.
2800 RELEASE 2.0.0.final.0 - Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:01:37 -0700
2804 - Fix XML in documentation.
2808 - Provide forward compatibility for the 'profile' module.
2810 - Provide forward compatibility for the 'pickle' module.
2812 - Provide forward compatibility for the 'io' module.
2814 - Provide forward compatibility for the 'queue' module.
2816 - Provide forward compatibility for the 'collections' module.
2818 - Provide forward compatibility for the 'builtins' module.
2820 - Provide forward compatibility for 'sys.intern()'.
2822 - Convert to os.walk() from of os.path.walk().
2824 - Remove compatibility logic no longer needed.
2826 - Add a '-3' option to runtest to print 3.x incompatibility warnings.
2828 - Convert old-style classes into new-style classes.
2830 - Fix "Ignoring corrupt sconsign entry" warnings when building
2831 in a tree with a pre-2.0 .sconsign file.
2833 - Fix propagation from environment of VS*COMNTOOLS to resolve issues
2834 initializing MSVC/MSVS/SDK issues.
2836 - Handle detecting Visual C++ on Python versions with upper-case
2837 platform architectures like 'AMD64'.
2839 From W. Trevor King:
2841 - Revisions to README.
2845 - Apply numerous Python fixers to update code to more modern idioms.
2846 Find where fixers should be applied to code in test strings and
2847 apply the fixers there, too.
2849 - Write a fixer to convert string functions to string methods.
2851 - Modify the 'dict' fixer to be less conservative.
2853 - Modify the 'apply' fixer to handle more cases.
2855 - Create a modified 'types' fixer that converts types to 2.x
2856 equivalents rather than 3.x equivalents.
2858 - Write a 'division' fixer to highlight uses of the old-style
2859 division operator. Correct usage where needed.
2861 - Add forward compatibility for the new 'memoryview' function
2862 (which replaces the 'buffer' function).
2864 - Add forward compatibility for the 'winreg' module.
2866 - Remove no-longer-needed 'platform' module.
2868 - Run tests with the '-3' option to Python 2.6 and clear up
2869 various reported incompatibilities.
2871 - Comb out code paths specialized to Pythons older than 2.4.
2873 - Update deprecation warnings; most now become mandatory.
2875 - Start deprecation cycle for BuildDir() and build_dir.
2877 - Start deprecation cycle for SourceCode() and related factories
2879 - Fixed a problem with is_Dict() not identifying some objects derived
2884 - Document the AllowSubstExceptions() function in the User's Guide.
2886 From William Deegan:
2888 - Migrate MSVC/MSVS/SDK improvements from 1.3 branch.
2891 RELEASE 1.3.0 - Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:44:19 -0400
2895 - Update man page and documentation.
2897 From William Deegan (plus minor patch from Gary Oberbrunner):
2899 - Support Visual Studio 8.0 Express
2901 RELEASE 1.2.0.d20100306 - Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:18:33 -0800
2903 From Luca Falavigna:
2905 - Fix typos in the man page.
2907 From Gottfried Ganssauge:
2909 - Support execution when SCons is installed via easy_install.
2913 - Make the messages for Configure checks of compilers consistent.
2915 - Issue an error message if a BUILDERS entry is not a Builder
2916 object or a callable wrapper.
2920 - Update tex builder to handle the case where a \input{foo}
2921 command tries to work with a directory named foo instead of the
2922 file foo.tex. The builder now ignores a directory and continues
2923 searching to find the correct file. Thanks to Lennart Sauerbeck
2924 for the test case and initial patch
2926 Also allow the \include of files in subdirectories when variantDir
2927 is used with duplicate=0. Previously latex would crash since
2928 the directory in which the .aux file is written was not created.
2929 Thanks to Stefan Hepp for finding this and part of the solution.
2932 - Patches to fix some issues using MS SDK V7.0
2934 From William Deegan:
2935 - Lots of testing and minor patches to handle mixed MS VC and SDK
2936 installations, as well as having only the SDK installed.
2939 RELEASE 1.2.0.d20100117 - Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:26:59 -0800
2942 - Fixed temp filename race condition on Windows with long cmd lines.
2944 From David Cournapeau:
2945 - Fixed tryRun when sconf directory is in a variant dir.
2946 - Do not add -fPIC for ifort tool on non-posix platforms (darwin and
2948 - Fix bug 2294 (spurious CheckCC failures).
2949 - Fix SCons bootstrap process on windows 64 (wrong wininst name)
2951 From William Deegan:
2952 - Final merge from vs_revamp branch to main
2954 - Added definition and usage of HOST_OS, HOST_ARCH, TARGET_OS,
2955 TARGET_ARCH, currently only defined/used by Visual Studio
2956 Compilers. This will be rolled out to other platforms/tools
2959 - Add check for python >= 3.0.0 and exit gracefully.
2960 For 1.3 python >= 1.5.2 and < 3.0.0 are supported
2962 - Fix bug 1944 - Handle non-existent .i file in swig emitter, previously
2963 it would crash with an IOError exception. Now it will try to make an
2964 educated guess on the module name based on the filename.
2966 From Lukas Erlinghagen:
2968 - Have AddOption() remove variables from the list of
2969 seen-but-unknown variables (which are reported later).
2971 - An option name and aliases can now be specified as a tuple.
2973 From Hartmut Goebel:
2979 - use "is/is not" in comparisons with None instead of "==" or "!=".
2983 - Avoid adding -gphobos to a command line multiple times
2984 when initializing use of the DMD compiler.
2988 - Sugguested HOST/TARGET OS/ARCH separation.
2992 - Fix the -n option when used with VariantDir(duplicate=1)
2993 and the variant directory doesn't already exist.
2995 - Fix scanning of Unicode files for both UTF-16 endian flavors.
2997 - Fix a TypeError on #include of file names with Unicode characters.
2999 - Fix an exception if a null command-line argument is passed in.
3001 - Evaluate Requires() prerequisites before a Node's direct children
3002 (sources and dependencies).
3006 - Remove redundant __metaclass__ initializations in Environment.py.
3008 - Correct the documentation of text returned by sconf.Result().
3010 - Document that filenames with '.' as the first character are
3011 ignored by Glob() by default (matching UNIX glob semantics).
3013 - Fix SWIG testing infrastructure to work on Mac OS X.
3015 - Restructure a test that occasionally hung so that the test would
3016 detect when it was stuck and fail instead.
3018 - Substfile builder.
3020 From Gary Oberbrunner:
3022 - When reporting a target that SCons doesn't know how to make,
3023 specify whether it's a File, Dir, etc.
3027 - Fix use of $SWIGOUTDIR when generating Python wrappers.
3029 - Add $SWIGDIRECTORSUFFIX and $SWIGVERSION construction variables.
3033 - Add -recorder flag to Latex commands and updated internals to
3034 use the output to find files TeX creates. This allows the MiKTeX
3035 installations to find the created files
3037 - Notify user of Latex errors that would get buried in the
3040 - Remove LATEXSUFFIXES from environments that don't initialize Tex.
3042 - Add support for the glossaries package for glossaries and acronyms
3044 - Fix problem that pdftex, latex, and pdflatex tools by themselves did
3045 not create the actions for bibtex, makeindex,... by creating them
3046 and other environment settings in one routine called by all four
3049 - Fix problem with filenames of sideeffects when the user changes
3050 the name of the output file from the latex default
3052 - Add scanning of files included in Latex by means of \lstinputlisting{}
3053 Patch from Stefan Hepp.
3055 - Change command line for epstopdf to use --outfile= instead of -o
3056 since this works on all platforms.
3057 Patch from Stefan Hepp.
3059 - Change scanner to properly search for included file from the
3060 directory of the main file instead of the file it is included from.
3061 Also update the emitter to add the .aux file associated with
3062 \include{filename} commands. This makes sure the required directories
3063 if any are created for variantdir cases.
3064 Half of the patch from Stefan Hepp.
3066 RELEASE 1.2.0.d20090223 - Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:41:06 -0800
3068 From Stanislav Baranov:
3070 - Make suffix-matching for scanners case-insensitive on Windows.
3072 From David Cournapeau:
3074 - Change the way SCons finds versions of Visual C/C++ and Visual
3075 Studio to find and use the Microsoft v*vars.bat files.
3077 From Robert P. J. Day:
3079 - User's Guide updates.
3083 - Fix generation of Visual Studio 8 project files on x64 platforms.
3087 - Set IncludeSearchPath and PreprocessorDefinitions in generated
3088 Visual Studio 8 project files, to help IntelliSense work.
3092 - Fix deletion of broken symlinks by the --clean option.
3096 - Fix the error message when use of a non-existent drive on Windows
3099 - Add sources for files whose targets don't exist in $CHANGED_SOURCES.
3101 - Detect implicit dependencies on commands even when the command is
3104 - Fix interaction of $CHANGED_SOURCES with the --config=force option.
3106 - Fix finding #include files when the string contains escaped
3107 backslashes like "C:\\some\\include.h".
3109 - Pass $CCFLAGS to Visual C/C++ precompiled header compilation.
3111 - Remove unnecessary nested $( $) around $_LIBDIRFLAGS on link lines
3112 for the Microsoft linker, the OS/2 ilink linker and the Phar Lap
3115 - Spell the Windows environment variables consistently "SystemDrive"
3116 and "SystemRoot" instead of "SYSTEMDRIVE" and "SYSTEMROOT".
3120 RELEASE 1.2.0.d20090113 - Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:50:30 -0800
3122 From Stanislav Baranov, Ted Johnson and Steven Knight:
3124 - Add support for batch compilation of Visual Studio C/C++ source
3125 files, controlled by a new $MSVC_BATCH construction variable.
3129 - Print the message, "scons: Build interrupted." on error output,
3130 not standard output.
3132 - Add a --warn=future-deprecated option for advance warnings about
3133 deprecated features that still have warnings hidden by default.
3135 - Fix use of $SOURCE and $SOURCES attributes when there are no
3136 sources specified in the Builder call.
3138 - Add support for new $CHANGED_SOURCES, $CHANGED_TARGETS,
3139 $UNCHANGED_SOURCES and $UNCHANGED_TARGETS variables.
3141 - Add general support for batch builds through new batch_key= and
3142 targets= keywords to Action object creation.
3146 - Make linker tools differentiate properly between SharedLibrary
3149 - Document TestCommon.shobj_prefix variable.
3151 - Support $SWIGOUTDIR values with spaces.
3155 - Don't automatically try to build .pdf graphics files for
3156 .eps files in \includegraphics{} calls in TeX/LaTeX files
3157 when building with the PDF builder (and thus using pdflatex).
3159 From Gary Oberbrunner:
3161 - Allow AppendENVPath() and PrependENVPath() to interpret '#'
3162 for paths relative to the top-level SConstruct directory.
3164 - Use the Borland ilink -e option to specify the output file name.
3166 - Document that the msvc Tool module uses $PCH, $PCHSTOP and $PDB.
3168 - Allow WINDOWS_INSERT_DEF=0 to disable --output-def when linking
3173 - Fix typos in the User's Guide.
3177 - Support implicit dependency scanning of files encoded in utf-8
3180 From Roberto de Vecchi:
3182 - Remove $CCFLAGS from the the default definitions of $CXXFLAGS for
3183 Visual C/C++ and MIPSpro C++ on SGI so, they match other tools
3184 and avoid flag duplication on C++ command lines.
3188 - Handle quoted module names in SWIG source files.
3190 - Emit *_wrap.h when SWIG generates header file for directors
3192 From Matthew Wesley:
3194 - Copy file attributes so we identify, and can link a shared library
3195 from, shared object files in a Repository.
3199 RELEASE 1.2.0 - Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:47:29 -0800
3203 - Don't fail if can't import a _subprocess module on Windows.
3205 - Add warnings for use of the deprecated Options object.
3209 RELEASE 1.1.0.d20081207 - Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:17:23 -0800
3213 - Improve the robustness of GetBuildFailures() by refactoring
3214 SCons exception handling (especially BuildError exceptions).
3216 - Have the --taskmastertrace= option print information about
3217 individual Task methods, not just the Taskmaster control flow.
3219 - Eliminate some spurious dependency cycles by being more aggressive
3220 about pruning pending children from the Taskmaster walk.
3222 - Suppress mistaken reports of a dependency cycle when a child
3223 left on the pending list is a single Node in EXECUTED state.
3225 From David Cournapeau:
3227 - Fix $FORTRANMODDIRPREFIX for the ifort (Intel Fortran) tool.
3229 From Brad Fitzpatrick:
3231 - Don't pre-generate an exception message (which will likely be
3232 ignored anyway) when an EntryProxy re-raises an AttributeError.
3236 - Clean up coding style and white space in Node/FS.py.
3238 - Fix a typo in the documentation for $_CPPDEFFLAGS.
3240 - Issue 2401: Fix usage of comparisons with None.
3242 From Ludwig H�hne:
3244 - Handle Java inner classes declared within a method.
3248 - Fix label placement by the "scons-time.py func" subcommand
3249 when a profile value was close to (or equal to) 0.0.
3251 - Fix env.Append() and env.Prepend()'s ability to add a string to
3252 list-like variables like $CCFLAGS under Python 2.6.
3254 - Other Python2.6 portability: don't use "as" (a Python 2.6 keyword).
3255 Don't use the deprecated Exception.message attribute.
3257 - Support using the -f option to search for a different top-level
3258 file name when walking up with the -D, -U or -u options.
3260 - Fix use of VariantDir when the -n option is used and doesn't,
3261 therefore, actually create the variant directory.
3263 - Fix a stack trace from the --debug=includes option when passed a
3264 static or shared library as an argument.
3266 - Speed up the internal find_file() function (used for searching
3267 CPPPATH, LIBPATH, etc.).
3269 - Add support for using the Python "in" keyword on construction
3270 environments (for example, if "CPPPATH" in env: ...).
3272 - Fix use of Glob() when a repository or source directory contains
3273 an in-memory Node without a corresponding on-disk file or directory.
3275 - Add a warning about future reservation of $CHANGED_SOURCES,
3276 $CHANGED_TARGETS, $UNCHANGED_SOURCES and $UNCHANGED_TARGETS.
3278 - Enable by default the existing warnings about setting the resource
3279 $SOURCE, $SOURCES, $TARGET and $TARGETS variable.
3283 - Scan for TeX files in the paths specified in the $TEXINPUTS
3284 construction variable and the $TEXINPUTS environment variable.
3286 - Configure the PDF() and PostScript() Builders as single_source so
3287 they know each source file generates a separate target file.
3289 - Add $EPSTOPDF, $EPSTOPDFFLAGS and $EPSTOPDFCOM
3291 - Add .tex as a valid extension for the PDF() builder.
3293 - Add regular expressions to find \input, \include and
3296 - Support generating a .pdf file from a .eps source.
3298 - Recursive scan included input TeX files.
3300 - Handle requiring searched-for TeX input graphics files to have
3301 extensions (to avoid trying to build a .eps from itself, e.g.).
3305 - Make the Action() function handle positional parameters consistently.
3307 - Clarify use of Configure.CheckType().
3309 - Make the File.{Dir,Entry,File}() methods create their entries
3310 relative to the calling File's directory, not the SConscript
3313 - Use the Python os.devnull variable to discard error output when
3314 looking for the $CC or $CXX version.
3316 - Mention LoadableModule() in the SharedLibrary() documentation.
3318 From Gary Oberbrunner:
3320 - Update the User's Guide to clarify use of the site_scons/
3321 directory and the site_init.py module.
3323 - Make env.AppendUnique() and env.PrependUnique remove duplicates
3324 within a passed-in list being added, too.
3326 From Randall Spangler:
3328 - Fix Glob() so an on-disk file or directory beginning with '#'
3329 doesn't throw an exception.
3333 RELEASE 1.1.0 - Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:33:47 -0700
3337 - Use the specified environment when checking for the GCC compiler
3340 From Ian P. Cardenas:
3342 - Fix Glob() polluting LIBPATH by returning copy of list
3344 From David Cournapeau:
3346 - Add CheckCC, CheckCXX, CheckSHCC and CheckSHCXX tests to
3347 configuration contexts.
3349 - Have the --profile= argument use the much faster cProfile module
3350 (if it's available in the running Python version).
3352 - Reorder MSVC compilation arguments so the /Fo is first.
3356 - Add scanning Windows resource (.rc) files for implicit dependencies.
3360 - When scanning for a #include file, don't use a directory that
3361 has the same name as the file.
3363 From Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
3365 - Suppress error output when checking for the GCC compiler version.
3369 - Fix VariantDir duplication of #included files in subdirectories.
3371 From Ludwig H�hne:
3373 - Reduce memory usage when a directory is used as a dependency of
3374 another Node (such as an Alias) by returning a concatenation
3375 of the children's signatures + names, not the children's contents,
3376 as the directory contents.
3378 - Raise AttributeError, not KeyError, when a Builder can't be found.
3380 - Invalidate cached Node information (such as the contenst returned
3381 by the get_contents() method) when calling actions with Execute().
3383 - Avoid object reference cycles from frame objects.
3385 - Reduce memory usage from Null Executor objects.
3387 - Compute MD5 checksums of large files without reading the entire
3388 file contents into memory. Add a new --md5-chunksize option to
3389 control the size of each chunk read into memory.
3393 - Fix the ability of the add_src_builder() method to add a new
3394 source builder to any other builder.
3396 - Avoid an infinite loop on non-Windows systems trying to find the
3397 SCons library directory if the Python library directory does not
3398 begin with the string "python".
3400 - Search for the SCons library directory in "scons-local" (with
3401 no version number) after "scons-local-{VERSION}".
3405 - Fix the user's ability to interrupt the TeX build chain.
3407 - Fix the TeX builder's allowing the user to specify the target name,
3408 instead of always using its default output name based on the source.
3410 - Iterate building TeX output files until all warning are gone
3411 and the auxiliary files stop changing, or until we reach the
3412 (configurable) maximum number of retries.
3414 - Add TeX scanner support for: glossaries, nomenclatures, lists of
3415 figures, lists of tables, hyperref and beamer.
3417 - Use the $BIBINPUTS, $BSTINPUTS, $TEXINPUTS and $TEXPICTS construction
3418 variables as search paths for the relevant types of input file.
3420 - Fix building TeX with VariantDir(duplicate=0) in effect.
3422 - Fix the LaTeX scanner to search for graphics on the TEXINPUTS path.
3424 - Have the PDFLaTeX scanner search for .gif files as well.
3428 - Fix typos and format bugs in the man page.
3430 - Add a first draft of a wrapper module for Python's subprocess
3433 - Refactor use of the SCons.compat module so other modules don't
3434 have to import it individually.
3436 - Add .sx as a suffix for assembly language files that use the
3439 From Gary Oberbrunner:
3441 - Make Glob() sort the returned list of Files or Nodes
3442 to prevent spurious rebuilds.
3444 - Add a delete_existing keyword argument to the AppendENVPath()
3445 and PrependENVPath() Environment methods.
3447 - Add ability to use "$SOURCE" when specifying a target to a builder
3451 - Add a test case to verify that SConsignFile() files can be
3452 created in previously non-existent subdirectories.
3456 - Make the subdirectory in which the SConsignFile() file will
3457 live, if the subdirectory doesn't already exist.
3461 - Add a test to verify duplication of files in VariantDir subdirectories.
3465 RELEASE 1.0.1 - Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:29:34 -0700
3469 - Add a FindFile() section to the User's Guide.
3471 - Fix the FindFile() documentation in the man page.
3473 - Fix formatting errors in the Package() description in the man page.
3475 - Escape parentheses that appear within variable names when spawning
3476 command lines using os.system().
3484 - Clear the Node state when turning a generic Entry into a Dir.
3486 From Ludwig H�hne:
3488 - Fix sporadic output-order failures in test/GetBuildFailures/parallel.py.
3490 - Document the ParseDepends() function in the User's Guide.
3494 - Create a separate description and long_description for RPM packages.
3498 - Document the GetLaunchDir() function in the User's Guide.
3500 - Have the env.Execute() method print an error message if the
3501 executed command fails.
3503 - Add a script for creating a standard SCons development system on
3504 Ubuntu Hardy. Rewrite subsidiary scripts for install Python and
3505 SCons versions in Python (from shell).
3509 - Handle yacc/bison on newer Mac OS X versions creating file.hpp,
3512 - In RPCGEN tests, ignore stderr messages from older versions of
3513 rpcgen on some versions of Mac OS X.
3515 - Fix typos in man page descriptions of Tag() and Package(), and in
3516 the scons-time man page.
3518 - Fix documentation of SConf.CheckLibWithHeader and other SConf methods.
3520 - Update documentation of SConscript(variant_dir) usage.
3522 - Fix SWIG tests for (some versions of) Mac OS X.
3526 - Print the warning about -j on Windows being potentially unreliable if
3527 the pywin32 extensions are unavailable or lack file handle operations.
3531 - Fix the env.WhereIs() method to expand construction variables.
3533 From Rogier Schouten:
3535 - Enable building of shared libraries with the Bordand ilink32 linker.
3539 RELEASE 1.0.0 - Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:19:44 -0700
3541 From Luca Falavigna:
3543 - Fix SCons man page indentation under Debian's man page macros.
3547 - Clarify the man page description of the SConscript(src_dir) argument.
3549 - User's Guide updates:
3551 - Document the BUILD_TARGETS, COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS and
3552 DEFAULT_TARGETS variables.
3554 - Document the AddOption(), GetOption() and SetOption() functions.
3556 - Document the Requires() function; convert to the Variables
3557 object, its UnknownOptions() method, and its associated
3558 BoolVariable(), EnumVariable(), ListVariable(), PackageVariable()
3559 and PathVariable() functions.
3561 - Document the Progress() function.
3563 - Reorganize the chapter and sections describing the different
3564 types of environments and how they interact. Document the
3565 SetDefault() method. Document the PrependENVPath() and
3566 AppendENVPath() functions.
3568 - Reorganize the command-line arguments chapter. Document the
3571 - Collect some miscellaneous sections into a chapter about
3572 configuring build output.
3576 - Document suggested use of the Visual C/C++ /FC option to fix
3577 the ability to double-click on file names in compilation error
3580 - Document the need to use Clean() for any SideEffect() files that
3581 must be explicitly removed when their targets are removed.
3583 - Explicitly document use of Node lists as input to Dependency().
3587 - Document MergeFlags(), ParseConfig(), ParseFlags() and SideEffect()
3588 in the User's Guide.
3590 From Gary Oberbrunner:
3592 - Document use of the GetBuildFailures() function in the User's Guide.
3596 - Add man page text clarifying the behavior of AddPreAction() and
3597 AddPostAction() when called with multiple targets.
3599 From Alexey Zezukin:
3601 - Fix incorrectly swapped man page descriptions of the --warn= options
3602 for duplicate-environment and missing-sconscript.
3606 RELEASE 0.98.5 - Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:20:35 -0700
3610 - Fix the Intel C++ compiler ABI specification for EMT64 processors.
3612 From David Cournapeau:
3614 - Issue a (suppressable) warning, not an error, when trying to link
3615 C++ and Fortran object files into the same executable.
3619 - Update the scons.bat file so that it returns the real exit status
3620 from SCons, even though it uses setlocal + endlocal.
3622 - Fix the --interactive post-build messages so it doesn't get stuck
3623 mistakenly reporting failures after any individual build fails.
3625 - Fix calling File() as a File object method in some circumstances.
3627 - Fix setup.py installation on Mac OS X so SCons gets installed
3628 under /usr/lcoal by default, not in the Mac OS X Python framework.
3632 RELEASE 0.98.4 - Sat, 17 May 2008 22:14:46 -0700
3636 - Fix calculation of signatures for Python function actions with
3637 closures in Python versions before 2.5.
3639 From David Cournapeau:
3641 - Fix the initialization of $SHF77FLAGS so it includes $F77FLAGS.
3645 - Fix a syntax error in the Intel C compiler support on Windows.
3649 - Change how we represent Python Value Nodes when printing and when
3650 stored in .sconsign files (to avoid blowing out memory by storing
3651 huge strings in .sconsign files after multiple runs using Configure
3652 contexts cause the Value strings to be re-escaped each time).
3654 - Fix a regression in not executing configuration checks after failure
3655 of any configuration check that used the same compiler or other tool.
3657 - Handle multiple destinations in Visual Studio 8 settings for the
3658 analogues to the INCLUDE, LIBRARY and PATH variables.
3662 - Update man page text for VariantDir().
3666 RELEASE 0.98.3 - Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:40:12 -0700
3670 - Fix use of $CXXFLAGS when building C++ shared object files.
3674 - Fix a regression when a Builder's source_scanner doesn't select
3675 a more specific scanner for the suffix of a specified source file.
3677 - Fix the Options object backwards compatibility so people can still
3678 "import SCons.Options.{Bool,Enum,List,Package,Path}Option" submodules.
3680 - Fix searching for implicit dependencies when an Entry Node shows up
3681 in the search path list.
3685 - Fix expansion of $FORTRANMODDIR in the default Fortran command line(s)
3686 when it's set to something like ${TARGET.dir}.
3690 RELEASE 0.98.2 - Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:38:56 -0700
3694 - Fix a bug in Fortran suffix computation that would cause SCons to
3695 run out of memory on Windows systems.
3697 - Fix being able to specify --interactive mode command lines with
3698 \ (backslash) path name separators on Windows.
3700 From Gary Oberbrunner:
3702 - Document Glob() in the User's Guide.
3706 RELEASE 0.98.1 - Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:11:58 -0700
3710 - Speed up the SCons.Util.to_string*() functions.
3712 - Optimize various Node intialization and calculations.
3714 - Optimize Executor scanning code.
3716 - Optimize Taskmaster execution, including dependency-cycle checking.
3718 - Fix the --debug=stree option so it prints its tree once, not twice.
3722 - Fix the ability to use LoadableModule() under MinGW.
3724 From David Cournapeau:
3726 - Various missing Fortran-related construction variables have been added.
3728 - SCons now uses the program specified in the $FORTRAN construction
3729 variable to link Fortran object files.
3731 - Fortran compilers on Linux (Intel, g77 and gfortran) now add the -fPIC
3732 option by default when compilling shared objects.
3734 - New 'sunf77', 'sunf90' and 'sunf95' Tool modules have been added to
3735 support Sun Fortran compilers. On Solaris, the Sun Fortran compilers
3736 are used in preference to other compilers by default.
3738 - Fortran support now uses gfortran in preference to g77.
3740 - Fortran file suffixes are now configurable through the
3741 $F77FILESUFFIXES, $F90FILESUFFIXES, $F95FILESUFFIXES and
3742 $FORTRANFILESUFFIXES variables.
3746 - Make the -d, -e, -w and --no-print-directory options "Ignored for
3747 compatibility." (We're not going to implement them.)
3749 - Fix a serious inefficiency in how SCons checks for whether any source
3750 files are missing when a Builder call creates many targets from many
3753 - In Java projects, make the target .class files depend only on the
3754 specific source .java files where the individual classes are defined.
3756 - Don't store duplicate source file entries in the .sconsign file so
3757 we don't endlessly rebuild the target(s) for no reason.
3759 - Add a Variables object as the first step towards deprecating the
3760 Options object name. Similarly, add BoolVariable(), EnumVariable(),
3761 ListVariable(), PackageVariable() and PathVariable() functions
3762 as first steps towards replacing BoolOption(), EnumOption(),
3763 ListOption(), PackageOption() and PathOption().
3765 - Change the options= keyword argument to the Environment() function
3766 to variables=, to avoid confusion with SCons command-line options.
3767 Continue supporting the options= keyword for backwards compatibility.
3769 - When $SWIGFLAGS contains the -python flag, expect the generated .py
3770 file to be in the same (sub)directory as the target.
3772 - When compiling C++ files, allow $CCFLAGS settings to show up on the
3773 command line even when $CXXFLAGS has been redefined.
3775 - Fix --interactive with -u/-U/-D when a VariantDir() is used.
3777 From Anatoly Techtonik:
3779 - Have the scons.bat file add the script execution directory to its
3780 local %PATH% on Windows, so the Python executable can be found.
3784 - Fix passing variable names as a list to the Return() function.
3786 From Matthew Wesley:
3788 - Add support for the GDC 'D' language compiler.
3792 RELEASE 0.98 - Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:33:05 -0700
3796 - Fix the --keep-going flag so it builds all possible targets even when
3797 a later top-level target depends on a child that failed its build.
3799 - Fix being able to use $PDB and $WINDWOWS_INSERT_MANIFEST together.
3801 - Don't crash if un-installing the Intel C compiler leaves left-over,
3802 dangling entries in the Windows registry.
3804 - Improve support for non-standard library prefixes and suffixes by
3805 stripping all prefixes/suffixes from file name string as appropriate.
3807 - Reduce the default stack size for -j worker threads to 256 Kbytes.
3808 Provide user control over this value by adding --stack-size and
3809 --warn=stack-size options, and a SetOption('stack_size') function.
3811 - Fix a crash on Linux systems when trying to use the Intel C compiler
3812 and no /opt/intel_cc_* directories are found.
3814 - Improve using Python functions as actions by incorporating into
3815 a FunctionAction's signature:
3816 - literal values referenced by the byte code.
3817 - values of default arguments
3818 - code of nested functions
3819 - values of variables captured by closures
3820 - names of referenced global variables and functions
3822 - Fix the closing message when --clean and --keep-going are both
3823 used and no errors occur.
3825 - Add support for the Intel C compiler on Mac OS X.
3827 - Speed up reading SConscript files by about 20% (for some
3828 configurations) by: 1) optimizing the SCons.Util.is_*() and
3829 SCons.Util.flatten() functions; 2) avoiding unnecessary os.stat()
3830 calls by using a File's .suffix attribute directly instead of
3833 From Jérôme Berger:
3835 - Have the D language scanner search for .di files as well as .d files.
3837 - Add a find_include_names() method to the Scanner.Classic class to
3838 abstract out how included names can be generated by subclasses.
3840 - Allow the D language scanner to detect multiple modules imported by
3843 From Konstantin Bozhikov:
3845 - Support expansion of construction variables that contain or refer
3846 to lists of other variables or Nodes within expansions like $CPPPATH.
3848 - Change variable substitution (the env.subst() method) so that an
3849 input sequence (list or tuple) is preserved as a list in the output.
3851 From David Cournapeau:
3853 - Add a CheckDeclaration() call to configure contexts.
3855 - Improve the CheckTypeSize() code.
3857 - Add a Define() call to configure contexts, to add arbitrary #define
3858 lines to a generated configure header file.
3860 - Add a "gfortran" Tool module for the GNU F95/F2003 compiler.
3862 - Avoid use of -rpath with the Mac OS X linker.
3864 - Add comment lines to the generated config.h file to describe what
3865 the various #define/#undef lines are doing.
3869 - Support the ability to subclass the new-style "str" class as input
3872 - Improve the performance of our type-checking by using isinstance()
3873 with new-style classes.
3875 - Fix #include (and other $*PATH variables searches) of files with
3876 absolute path names. Don't die if they don't exist (due to being
3877 #ifdef'ed out or the like).
3879 - Fix --interactive mode when Default(None) is used.
3881 - Fix --debug=memoizer to work around a bug in base Python 2.2 metaclass
3882 initialization (by just not allowing Memoization in Python versions
3885 - Have the "scons-time time" subcommand handle empty log files, and
3886 log files that contain no results specified by the --which option.
3888 - Fix the max Y of vertical bars drawn by "scons-time --fmt=gnuplot".
3890 - On Mac OS X, account for the fact that the header file generated
3891 from a C++ file will be named (e.g.) file.cpp.h, not file.hpp.
3893 - Fix floating-point numbers confusing the Java parser about
3894 generated .class file names in some configurations.
3896 - Document (nearly) all the values you can now fetch with GetOption().
3898 - Fix use of file names containing strings of multiple spaces when
3899 using ActionFactory instances like the Copy() or Move() function.
3901 - Fix a 0.97 regression when using a variable expansion (like
3902 $OBJSUFFIX) in a source file name to a builder with attached source
3903 builders that match suffix (like Program()+Object()).
3905 - Have the Java parser recognize generics (surrounded by angle brackets)
3906 so they don't interfere with identifying anonymous inner classes.
3908 - Avoid an infinite loop when trying to use saved copies of the
3909 env.Install() or env.InstallAs() after replacing the method
3912 - Improve the performance of setting construction variables.
3914 - When cloning a construction environment, avoid over-writing an
3915 attribute for an added method if the user explicitly replaced it.
3917 - Add a warning about deprecated support for Python 1.5, 2.0 and 2.1.
3919 - Fix being able to SetOption('warn', ...) in SConscript files.
3921 - Add a warning about env.Copy() being deprecated.
3923 - Add warnings about the --debug={dtree,stree,tree} options
3926 - Add VariantDir() as the first step towards deprecating BuildDir().
3927 Add the keyword argument "variant_dir" as the replacement for
3930 - Add warnings about the {Target,Source}Signatures() methods and
3931 functions being deprecated.
3935 - Enhance TeX and LaTeX support to work with BuildDir(duplicate=0).
3937 - Re-run LaTeX when it issues a package warning that it must be re-run.
3939 From Leanid Nazdrynau:
3941 - Have the Copy() action factory preserve file modes and times
3942 when copying individual files.
3946 - If $JARCHDIR isn't set explicitly, use the .java_classdir attribute
3947 that was set when the Java() Builder built the .class files.
3951 - Document the Dir(), File() and Entry() methods of Dir and File Nodes.
3953 - Add the parse_flags option when creating Environments
3955 From Gary Oberbrunner:
3957 - Make File(), Dir() and Entry() return a list of Nodes when passed
3958 a list of names, instead of trying to make a string from the name
3959 list and making a Node from that string.
3961 - Fix the ability to build an Alias in --interactive mode.
3963 - Fix the ability to hash the contents of actions for nested Python
3964 functions on Python versions where the inability to pickle them
3965 returns a TypeError (instead of the documented PicklingError).
3969 - Fix use of the Intel C compiler when the top compiler directory,
3970 but not the compiler version, is specified.
3972 - Handle Intel C compiler network license files (port@system).
3976 - Fix how Python Value Nodes are printed in --debug=explain output.
3980 - Add a --interactive option that starts a session for building (or
3981 cleaning) targets without re-reading the SConscript files every time.
3983 - Fix use of readline command-line editing in --interactive mode.
3985 - Have the --interactive mode "build" command with no arguments
3986 build the specified Default() targets.
3988 - Fix the Chmod(), Delete(), Mkdir() and Touch() Action factories to
3989 take a list (of Nodes or strings) as arguments.
3991 From Vaclav Smilauer:
3993 - Fix saving and restoring an Options value of 'all' on Python
3994 versions where all() is a builtin function.
3996 From Daniel Svensson:
3998 - Code correction in SCons.Util.is_List().
4002 - Support the SWIG %module statement with following modifiers in
4003 parenthese (e.g., '%module(directors="1")').
4007 RELEASE 0.97.0d20071212 - Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:29:32 -0600
4011 - Fix occasional spurious rebuilds and inefficiency when using
4012 --implicit-cache and Builders that produce multiple targets.
4014 - Allow SCons to not have to know about the builders of generated
4015 files when BuildDir(duplicate=0) is used, potentially allowing some
4016 SConscript files to be ignored for smaller builds.
4018 From David Cournapeau:
4020 - Add a CheckTypeSize() call to configure contexts.
4024 - Make the "contents" of Alias Nodes a concatenation of the children's
4025 content signatures (MD5 checksums), not a concatenation of the
4026 children's contents, to avoid using large amounts of memory during
4027 signature calculation.
4031 - Fix a lot of typos in the man page and User's Guide.
4033 From Geoffrey Irving:
4035 - Speed up conversion of paths in .sconsign files to File or Dir Nodes.
4039 - Add an Options.UnknownOptions() method that returns any settings
4040 (from the command line, or whatever dictionary was passed in)
4041 that aren't known to the Options object.
4043 - Add a Glob() function.
4045 - When removing targets with the -c option, use the absolute path (to
4046 avoid problems interpreting BuildDir() when the top-level directory
4047 is the source directory).
4049 - Fix problems with Install() and InstallAs() when called through a
4050 clone (of a clone, ...) of a cloned construction environment.
4052 - When executing a file containing Options() settings, add the file's
4053 directory to sys.path (so modules can be imported from there) and
4054 explicity set __name__ to the name of the file so the statement's
4055 in the file can deduce the location if they need to.
4057 - Fix an O(n^2) performance problem when adding sources to a target
4058 through calls to a multi Builder (including Aliases).
4060 - Redefine the $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTSUFFIX and
4061 $WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTSUFFIX variables so they pick up changes to
4062 the underlying $SHLIBSUFFIX and $PROGSUFFIX variables.
4064 - Add a GetBuildFailures() function that can be called from functions
4065 registered with the Python atexit module to print summary information
4066 about any failures encountered while building.
4068 - Return a NodeList object, not a Python list, when a single_source
4069 Builder like Object() is called with more than one file.
4071 - When searching for implicit dependency files in the directories
4072 in a $*PATH list, don't create Dir Nodes for directories that
4073 don't actually exist on-disk.
4075 - Add a Requires() function to allow the specification of order-only
4076 prerequisites, which will be updated before specified "downstream"
4077 targets but which don't actually cause the target to be rebuilt.
4079 - Restore the FS.{Dir,File,Entry}.rel_path() method.
4081 - Make the default behavior of {Source,Target}Signatures('timestamp')
4082 be equivalent to 'timestamp-match', not 'timestamp-newer'.
4084 - Fix use of CacheDir with Decider('timestamp-newer') by updating
4085 the modification time when copying files from the cache.
4087 - Fix random issues with parallel (-j) builds on Windows when Python
4088 holds open file handles (especially for SCons temporary files,
4089 or targets built by Python function actions) across process creation.
4091 From Maxim Kartashev:
4093 - Fix test scripts when run on Solaris.
4095 From Gary Oberbrunner:
4097 - Fix Glob() when a pattern is in an explicitly-named subdirectory.
4099 From Philipp Scholl:
4101 - Fix setting up targets if multiple Package builders are specified
4106 RELEASE 0.97.0d20070918 - Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:51:27 -0500
4110 - Fix the wix Tool module to handle null entries in $PATH variables.
4112 - Move the documentation of Install() and InstallAs() from the list
4113 of functions to the list of Builders (now that they're implemented
4116 - Allow env.CacheDir() to be set per construction environment. The
4117 global CacheDir() function now sets an overridable global default.
4119 - Add an env.Decider() method and a Node.Decider() method that allow
4120 flexible specification of an arbitrary function to decide if a given
4121 dependency has changed since the last time a target was built.
4123 - Don't execute Configure actions (while reading SConscript files)
4124 when cleaning (-c) or getting help (-h or -H).
4126 - Add to each target an implicit dependency on the external command(s)
4127 used to build the target, as found by searching env['ENV']['PATH']
4128 for the first argument on each executed command line.
4130 - Add support for a $IMPLICIT_COMMAND_DEPENDENCIES construction
4131 variabe that can be used to disable the automatic implicit
4132 dependency on executed commands.
4134 - Add an "ensure_suffix" keyword to Builder() definitions that, when
4135 true, will add the configured suffix to the targets even if it looks
4136 like they already have a different suffix.
4138 - Add a Progress() function that allows for calling a function or string
4139 (or list of strings) to display progress while walking the DAG.
4141 - Allow ParseConfig(), MergeFlags() and ParseFlags() to handle output
4142 from a *config command with quoted path names that contain spaces.
4144 - Make the Return() function stop processing the SConscript file and
4145 return immediately. Add a "stop=" keyword argument that can be set
4146 to False to preserve the old behavior.
4148 - Fix use of exitstatfunc on an Action.
4150 - Introduce all man page function examples with "Example:" or "Examples:".
4152 - When a file gets added to a directory, make sure the directory gets
4153 re-scanned for the new implicit dependency.
4155 - Fix handling a file that's specified multiple times in a target
4156 list so that it doesn't cause dependent Nodes to "disappear" from
4157 the dependency graph walk.
4161 - Avoid race conditions with same-named files and directory creation
4162 when pushing copies of files to CacheDir().
4166 - Handle $ in Java class names.
4168 From Gary Oberbrunner:
4170 - Add support for the Intel C compiler on Windows64.
4172 - On SGI IRIX, have $SHCXX use $CXX by default (like other platforms).
4176 - When Cloning a construction environment, set any variables before
4177 applying tools (so the tool module can access the configured settings)
4178 and re-set them after (so they end up matching what the user set).
4180 From Matthias Troffaes:
4182 - Make sure extra auxiliary files generated by some LaTeX packages
4183 and not ending in .aux also get deleted by scons -c.
4187 - Add a $JAVABOOTCLASSPATH variable for directories to be passed to the
4188 javac -bootclasspath option.
4190 From Christoph Wiedemann:
4192 - Add implicit dependencies on the commands used to build a target.
4197 RELEASE 0.97.0d20070809 - Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:51:27 -0500
4199 From Lars Albertsson:
4201 - Don't error if a #include line happens to match a directory
4202 somewhere on a path (like $CPPPATH, $FORTRANPATH, etc.).
4204 From Mark Bertoglio:
4206 - Fix listing multiple projects in Visual Studio 7.[01] solution files,
4207 including generating individual project GUIDs instead of re-using
4212 - Add /opt/SUNWspro/bin to the default execution PATH on Solaris.
4216 - Only expect the Microsoft IDL compiler to emit *_p.c and *_data.c
4217 files if the /proxy and /dlldata switches are used (respectively).
4221 - Have --debug=explain report if a target is being rebuilt because
4222 AlwaysBuild() is specified (instead of "unknown reasons").
4224 - Support {Get,Set}Option('help') to make it easier for SConscript
4225 files to tell if a help option (-h, --help, etc.) has been specified.
4227 - Support {Get,Set}Option('random') so random-dependency interaction
4228 with CacheDir() is controllable from SConscript files.
4230 - Add a new AddOption() function to support user-defined command-
4231 line flags (like --prefix=, --force, etc.).
4233 - Replace modified Optik version with new optparse compatibility module
4234 for command line processing in Scripts/SConsOptions.py
4236 - Push and retrieve built symlinks to/from a CacheDir() as actual
4237 symlinks, not by copying the file contents.
4239 - Fix how the Action module handles stringifying the shared library
4240 generator in the Tool/mingw.py module.
4242 - When generating a config.h file, print "#define HAVE_{FEATURE} 1"
4243 instad of just "#define HAVE_{FEATURE}", for more compatibility
4244 with Autoconf-style projects.
4246 - Fix expansion of $TARGET, $TARGETS, $SOURCE and $SOURCES keywords in
4247 Visual C/C++ PDB file names.
4249 - Fix locating Visual C/C++ PDB files in build directories.
4251 - Support an env.AddMethod() method and an AddMethod() global function
4252 for adding a new method, respectively, to a construction environment
4253 or an arbitrary object (such as a class).
4255 - Fix the --debug=time option when the -j option is specified and all
4256 files are up to date.
4258 - Add a $SWIGOUTDIR variable to allow setting the swig -outdir option,
4259 and use it to identify files created by the swig -java option.
4261 - Add a $SWIGPATH variable that specifies the path to be searched
4262 for included SWIG files, Also add related $SWIGINCPREFIX and
4263 $SWIGINCSUFFIX variables that specify the prefix and suffix to
4264 be be added to each $SWIGPATH directory when expanded on the SWIG
4267 - More efficient copying of construction environments (mostly borrowed
4268 from copy.deepcopy() in the standard Python library).
4270 - When printing --tree=prune output, don't print [brackets] around
4271 source files, only do so for built targets with children.
4273 - Fix interpretation of Builder source arguments when the Builder has
4274 a src_suffix *and* a source_builder and the argument has no suffix.
4276 - Fix use of expansions like ${TARGET.dir} or ${SOURCE.dir} in the
4277 following construction variables: $FORTRANMODDIR, $JARCHDIR,
4278 $JARFLAGS, $LEXFLAGS, $SWIGFLAGS, $SWIGOUTDIR and $YACCFLAGS.
4280 - Fix dependencies on Java files generated by SWIG so they can be
4281 detected and built in one pass.
4283 - Fix SWIG when used with a BuildDir().
4285 From Leanid Nazdrynau:
4287 - When applying Tool modules after a construction environment has
4288 already been created, don't overwrite existing $CFILESUFFIX and
4289 $CXXFILESUFFIX value.
4291 - Support passing the Java() builder a list of explicit .java files
4292 (not only a list of directories to be scanned for .java files).
4294 - Support passing .java files to the Jar() and JavaH() builders, which
4295 then use the builder underlying the Java() builder to turn them into
4296 .class files. (That is, the Jar()-Java() chain of builders become
4297 multi-step, like the Program()-Object()-CFile() builders.)
4299 - Support passing SWIG .i files to the Java builders (Java(),
4300 Jar(), JavaH()), to cause intermediate .java files to be created
4303 - Add $JAVACLASSPATH and $JAVASOURCEPATH variables, that get added to
4304 the javac "-classpath" and "-sourcepath" options. (Note that SCons
4305 does *not* currently search these paths for implicit dependencies.)
4307 - Commonize initialization of Java-related builders.
4311 - Find Java anonymous classes when the next token after the name is
4312 an open parenthesis.
4314 From Gary Oberbrunner:
4316 - Fix a code example in the man page.
4320 - Add support for the file names that Java 1.5 (and 1.6) generates for
4321 nested anonymous inner classes, which are different from Java 1.4.
4325 - Allow worker threads to terminate gracefully when all jobs are
4330 - Add LaTeX scanner support for finding dependencies specified with
4331 the \usepackage{} directive.
4335 RELEASE 0.97 - Thu, 17 May 2007 08:59:41 -0500
4339 - Fix a bug that would make parallel builds stop in their tracks if
4340 Nodes that depended on lists that contained some Nodes built together
4341 caused the reference count to drop below 0 if the Nodes were visited
4342 and commands finished in the wrong order.
4344 - Make sure the DirEntryScanner doesn't choke if it's handed something
4345 that's not a directory (Node.FS.Dir) Node.
4349 RELEASE 0.96.96 - Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:36:25 -0500
4351 NOTE: This is (Yet) a(nother) pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes.
4355 - Man page fix: remove cut-and-paste sentence in NoCache() description.
4357 From Dmitry Grigorenko and Gary Oberbrunner:
4359 - Use the Intel C++ compiler, not $CC, to link C++ source.
4363 - Fix the man page example of propagating a user's external environment.
4367 - Back out (most of) the Windows registry installer patch, which
4368 seems to not work on some versions of Windows.
4370 - Don't treat Java ".class" attributes as defining an inner class.
4372 - Fix detecting an erroneous Java anonymous class when the first
4373 non-skipped token after a "new" keyword is a closing brace.
4375 - Fix a regression when a CPPDEFINES list contains a tuple, the second
4376 item of which (the option value) is a construction variable expansion
4377 (e.g. $VALUE) and the value of the variable isn't a string.
4379 - Improve the error message if an IOError (like trying to read a
4380 directory as a file) occurs while deciding if a node is up-to-date.
4382 - Fix "maximum recursion" / "unhashable type" errors in $CPPPATH
4383 PathList expansion if a subsidiary expansion yields a stringable,
4386 - Generate API documentation from the docstrings (using epydoc).
4388 - Fix use of --debug=presub with Actions for out-of-the-box Builders.
4390 - Fix handling nested lists within $CPPPATH, $LIBPATH, etc.
4392 - Fix a "builders_used" AttributeError that real-world Qt initialization
4393 triggered in the refactored suffix handling for Builders.
4395 - Make the reported --debug=time timings meaningful when used with -j.
4396 Better documentation of what the times mean.
4398 - User Guide updates: --random, AlwaysBuild(), --tree=,
4399 --debug=findlibs, --debug=presub, --debug=stacktrace,
4402 - Document (in both man page and User's Guide) that --implicit-cache
4403 ignores changes in $CPPPATH, $LIBPATH, etc.
4405 From Jean-Baptiste Lab:
4407 - Remove hard-coded dependency on Python 2.2 from Debian packaging files.
4411 - Handle spaces in the build target name in Visual Studio project files.
4415 - Re-run LaTeX after BibTeX has been re-run in response to a changed
4418 From Joel B. Mohler:
4420 - Make additional TeX auxiliary files (.toc, .idx and .bbl files)
4421 Precious so their removal doesn't affect whether the necessary
4422 sections are included in output PDF or PostScript files.
4424 From Gary Oberbrunner:
4426 - Fix the ability to import modules in the site_scons directory from
4431 - Make sure parallel (-j) builds all targets even if they show up
4432 multiple times in the child list (as a source and a dependency).
4434 From Matthias Troffaes:
4436 - Don't re-run TeX if the triggering strings (\makeindex, \bibliography
4437 \tableofcontents) are commented out.
4441 - Fix use of custom include and lib paths with Visual Studio 8.
4443 - Select the default .NET Framework SDK Dir based on the version of
4444 Visual Studio being used.
4448 RELEASE 0.96.95 - Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:25:16 -0600
4450 From Anatoly Techtonik:
4452 - Add the scons.org URL and a package description to the setup.py
4455 - Have the Windows installer add a registry entry for scons.bat in the
4456 "App Paths" key, so scons.bat can be executed without adding the
4457 directory to the %PATH%. (Python itself works this way.)
4461 - Fix looking for default paths in Visual Studio 8.0 (and later).
4463 - Add -lm to the list of default D libraries for linking.
4467 - Provide a more complete write-your-own-Scanner example in the man page.
4469 From Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve:
4471 - Contributed upstream Python change to our copied subprocess.py module
4472 for more efficient standard input processing.
4476 - Fix the Node.FS.Base.rel_path() method when the two nodes are on
4477 different drive letters. (This caused an infinite loop when
4478 trying to write .sconsign files.)
4480 - Fully support Scanners that use a dictionary to map file suffixes
4483 - Support delayed evaluation of the $SPAWN variable to allow selection
4484 of a function via ${} string expansions.
4486 - Add --srcdir as a synonym for -Y/--repository.
4488 - Document limitations of #include "file.h" with Repository().
4490 - Fix use of a toolpath under the source directory of a BuildDir().
4492 - Fix env.Install() with a file name portion that begins with '#'.
4494 - Fix ParseConfig()'s handling of multiple options in a string that's
4495 replaced a *FLAGS construction variable.
4497 - Have the C++ tools initialize common C compilation variables ($CCFLAGS,
4498 $SHCCFLAGS and $_CCCOMCOM) even if the 'cc' Tool isn't loaded.
4500 From Leanid Nazdrynau:
4502 - Fix detection of Java anonymous classes if a newline precedes the
4505 From Gary Oberbrunner:
4507 - Document use of ${} to execute arbitrary Python code.
4510 1) automatically adding a site_scons subdirectory (in the top-level
4511 SConstruct directory) to sys.path (PYTHONPATH);
4512 2) automatically importing site_scons/site_init.py;
4513 3) automatically adding site_scons/site_tools to the toolpath.
4517 - Change ParseConfig() to preserve white space in arguments passed in
4522 - Fix adding explicitly-named Java inner class files (and any
4523 other file names that may contain a '$') to Jar files.
4527 - Add a NoCache() function to mark targets as unsuitable for propagating
4528 to (or retrieving from) a CacheDir().
4532 - If the swig -noproxy option is used, it won't generate a .py file,
4533 so don't emit it as a target that we expect to be built.
4537 RELEASE 0.96.94 - Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:36:20 -0600
4539 NOTE: This is a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes.
4543 - Allow arbitrary white space after a SWIG %module declaration.
4547 - When compiling resources under MinGW, make sure there's a space
4548 between the --include-dir option and its argument.
4552 - Alleviate long command line issues on Windows by executing command
4553 lines directly via os.spawnv() if the command line doesn't need
4554 shell interpretation (has no pipes, redirection, etc.).
4556 From Walter Franzini:
4558 - Exclude additional Debian packaging files from the copyright check.
4562 - Handle the conflict between the impending Python 2.6 'as' keyword
4563 and our Tool/as.py module name.
4567 - Speed up the Node.FS.Dir.rel_path() method used to generate path names
4568 that get put into the .sconsign* file(s).
4570 - Optimize Node.FS.Base.get_suffix() by computing the suffix once, up
4571 front, when we set the Node's name. (Duh...)
4573 - Reduce the Memoizer's responsibilities to simply counting hits and
4574 misses when the --debug=memoizer option is used, not to actually
4575 handling the key calculation and memoization itself. This speeds
4576 up some configurations significantly, and should cause no functional
4579 - Add a new scons-time script with subcommands for generating
4580 consistent timing output from SCons configurations, extracting
4581 various information from those timings, and displaying them in
4584 - Reduce some unnecessary stat() calls from on-disk entry type checks.
4586 - Fix SideEffect() when used with -j, which was badly broken in 0.96.93.
4588 - Propagate TypeError exceptions when evaluating construction variable
4589 expansions up the stack, so users can see what's going on.
4591 - When disambiguating a Node.FS.Entry into a Dir or File, don't look
4592 in the on-disk source directory until we've confirmed there's no
4593 on-disk entry locally and there *is* one in the srcdir. This avoids
4594 creating a phantom Node that can interfere with dependencies on
4597 - Add an AllowSubstExceptions() function that gives the SConscript
4598 files control over what exceptions cause a string to expand to ''
4599 vs. terminating processing with an error.
4601 - Allow the f90.py and f95.py Tool modules to compile earlier source
4602 source files of earlier Fortran version.
4604 - Fix storing signatures of files retrieved from CacheDir() so they're
4605 correctly identified as up-to-date next invocation.
4607 - Make sure lists of computed source suffixes cached by Builder objects
4608 don't persist across changes to the list of source Builders (so the
4609 addition of suffixes like .ui by the qt.py Tool module take effect).
4611 - Enhance the bootstrap.py script to allow it to be used to execute
4612 SCons more easily from a checked-out source tree.
4616 - Fix post-Memoizer value caching misspellings in Node.FS._doLookup().
4618 From Rob Managan, Dmitry Mikhin and Joel B. Mohler:
4620 - Handle TeX/LaTeX files in subdirectories by changing directory
4621 before invoking TeX/LaTeX.
4623 - Scan LaTeX files for \bibliography lines.
4625 - Support multiple file names in a "\bibliography{file1,file2}" string.
4627 - Handle TeX warnings about undefined citations.
4629 - Support re-running LaTeX if necessary due to a Table of Contents.
4633 - Return LaTeX if "Rerun to get citations correct" shows up on the next
4634 line after the "Warning:" string.
4636 From Gary Oberbrunner:
4638 - Add #include lines to fix portability issues in two tests.
4640 - Eliminate some unnecessary os.path.normpath() calls.
4642 - Add a $CFLAGS variable for C-specific options, leaving $CCFLAGS
4643 for options common to C and C++.
4647 - Have the error message print the missing file that Qt can't find.
4651 - Fix env.MergeFlags() appending to construction variable value of None.
4655 - Fix the "sconsign" script when the .sconsign.dblite file is explicitly
4656 specified on the command line (and not intuited from the old way of
4657 calling it with just ".sconsign").
4659 From Jose Pablo Ezequiel "Pupeno" Fernandez Silva:
4661 - Give the 'lex' tool knowledge of the additional target files produced
4662 by the flex "--header-file=" and "--tables-file=" options.
4664 - Give the 'yacc' tool knowledge of the additional target files produced
4665 by the bison "-g", "--defines=" and "--graph=" options.
4667 - Generate intermediate files with Objective C file suffixes (.m) when
4668 the lex and yacc source files have appropriate suffixes (.lm and .ym).
4672 - Have the mslink.py Tool only look for a 'link' executable on Windows
4675 From Vaclav Smilauer:
4677 - Add support for a "srcdir" keyword argument when calling a Builder,
4678 which will add a srcdir prefix to all non-relative string sources.
4680 From Jonathan Ultis:
4682 - Allow Options converters to take the construction environment as
4683 an optional argument.
4687 RELEASE 0.96.93 - Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:44:11 -0600
4689 NOTE: This is a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes.
4693 - Allow Python Value Nodes to be Builder targets.
4697 - Only filter Visual Studio common filename prefixes on complete
4702 - Fix the build of the SCons documentation on systems that don't
4703 have "python" in the $PATH.
4707 - Enhance ParseConfig() to recognize options that begin with '+'.
4709 From John Calcote, Elliot Murphy:
4711 - Document ways to override the CCPDBFLAGS variable to use the
4712 Microsoft linker's /Zi option instead of the default /Z7.
4714 From Christopher Drexler:
4716 - Make SCons aware bibtex must be called if any \include files
4717 cause creation of a bibliography.
4719 - Make SCons aware that "\bilbiography" in TeX source files means
4720 that related .bbl and .blg bibliography files will be created.
4721 (NOTE: This still needs to search for the string in \include files.)
4725 - Fix inconsistent handling of Action strfunction arguments.
4727 - Preserve white space in display Action strfunction strings.
4729 From James Y. Knight and Gerard Patel:
4731 - Support creation of shared object files from assembly language.
4735 - Speed up the Taskmaster significantly by avoiding unnecessary
4736 re-scans of Nodes to find out if there's work to be done, having it
4737 track the currently-executed top-level target directly and not
4738 through its presence on the target list, and eliminating some other
4739 minor list(s), method(s) and manipulation.
4741 - Fix the expansion of $TARGET and $SOURCE in the expansion of
4742 $INSTALLSTR displayed for non-environment calls to InstallAs().
4744 - Fix the ability to have an Alias() call refer to a directory
4745 name that's not identified as a directory until later.
4747 - Enhance runtest.py with an option to use QMTest as the harness.
4748 This will become the default behavior as we add more functionality
4751 - Let linking on mingw use the default function that chooses $CC (gcc)
4752 or $CXX (g++) depending on whether there are any C++ source files.
4754 - Work around a bug in early versions of the Python 2.4 profile module
4755 that caused the --profile= option to fail.
4757 - Only call Options validators and converters once when initializing a
4758 construction environment.
4760 - Fix the ability of env.Append() and env.Prepend(), in all known Python
4761 versions, to handle different input value types when the construction
4762 variable being updated is a dictionary.
4764 - Add a --cache-debug option for information about what files it's
4765 looking for in a CacheDir().
4767 - Document the difference in construction variable expansion between
4768 {Action,Builder}() and env.{Action,Builder}().
4770 - Change the name of env.Copy() to env.Clone(), keeping the old name
4771 around for backwards compatibility (with the intention of eventually
4772 phasing it out to avoid confusion with the Copy() Action factory).
4776 - Support cleaning and scanning SWIG-generated files.
4780 - Allow selection of Visual Studio version by setting $MSVS_VERSION
4781 after construction environment initialization.
4783 From Jean-Baptiste Lab:
4785 - Try using zipimport if we can't import Tool or Platform modules
4786 using the normal "imp" module. This allows SCons to be packaged
4787 using py2exe's all-in-one-zip-file approach.
4791 - Do not re-scan files if the scanner returns no implicit dependencies.
4793 From Sanjoy Mahajan:
4795 - Change use of $SOURCES to $SOURCE in all TeX-related Tool modules.
4797 From Joel B. Mohler:
4799 - Make SCons aware that "\makeindex" in TeX source files means that
4800 related .ilg, .ind and .idx index files will be created.
4801 (NOTE: This still needs to search for the string in \include files.)
4803 - Prevent scanning the TeX .aux file for additional files from
4804 trying to remove it twice when the -c option is used.
4806 From Leanid Nazdrynau:
4808 - Give the MSVC RES (resource) Builder a src_builder list and a .rc
4809 src_suffix so other builders can generate .rc files.
4811 From Matthew A. Nicholson:
4813 - Enhance Install() and InstallAs() to handle directory trees as sources.
4817 - Don't use the -fPIC flag when using gcc on Windows (e.g. MinGW).
4821 - Add an env.ParseFlags() method that provides separate logic for
4822 parsing GNU tool chain flags into a dictionary.
4824 - Add an env.MergeFlags() method to apply an arbitrary dictionary
4825 of flags to a construction environment's variables.
4827 From Gary Oberbrunner:
4829 - Fix parsing tripartite Intel C compiler version numbers on Linux.
4831 - Extend the ParseConfig() function to recognize -arch and
4834 - Have the error message list the known suffixes when a Builder call
4835 can't build a source file with an unknown suffix.
4837 From Karol Pietrzak:
4839 - Avoid recursive calls to main() in the program snippet used by the
4840 SConf subsystem to test linking against libraries. This changes the
4841 default behavior of CheckLib() and CheckLibWithHeader() to print
4842 "Checking for C library foo..." instead of "Checking for main()
4843 in C library foo...".
4847 - Throw an exception if a command called by ParseConfig() or
4848 ParseFlags() returns an error.
4850 From Stefan Seefeld:
4852 - Initial infrastructure for running SCons tests under QMTest.
4856 - Fix tests that fail due to gcc warnings.
4858 From Dobes Vandermeer:
4860 - In stack traces, print the full paths of SConscript files.
4864 - Fix detection of Visual C++ Express Edition.
4866 From Dobes Vandermeer:
4868 - Let the src_dir option to the SConscript() function affect all the
4869 the source file paths, instead of treating all source files paths
4870 as relative to the SConscript directory itself.
4872 From Nicolas Vigier:
4874 - Fix finding Fortran modules in build directories.
4876 - Fix use of BuildDir() when the source file in the source directory
4877 is a symlink with a relative path.
4881 - Fix the Memoizer when the SCons Python modules are executed from
4882 .pyo files at different locations from where they were compiled.
4886 - Fix missing os.path.join() when constructing the $FRAMEWORKSDKDIR/bin.
4890 RELEASE 0.96.92 - Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:08:22 -0400
4892 NOTE: This was a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes.
4896 - Fix the intelc.py Tool module to not throw an exception if the
4897 only installed version is something other than ia32.
4899 - Set $CCVERSION when using gcc.
4903 - Support generating project and solution files for Microsoft
4904 Visual Studio version 8.
4906 - Support generating more than one project file for a Microsoft
4907 Visual Studio solution file.
4909 - Add support for a support "runfile" parameter to Microsoft
4910 Visual Studio project file creation.
4912 - Put the project GUID, not the solution GUID, in the right spot
4913 in the solution file.
4915 From Erling Andersen:
4917 - Fix interpretation of Node.FS objects wrapped in Proxy instances,
4918 allowing expansion of things like ${File(TARGET)} in command lines.
4920 From Stanislav Baranov:
4922 - Add a separate MSVSSolution() Builder, with support for the
4923 following new construction variables: $MSVSBUILDCOM, $MSVSCLEANCOM,
4924 $MSVSENCODING, $MSVSREBUILDCOM, $MSVSSCONS, $MSVSSCONSCOM,
4925 $MSVSSCONSFLAGS, $MSVSSCONSCRIPT and $MSVSSOLUTIONCOM.
4927 From Ralph W. Grosse-Kunstleve and Patrick Mezard:
4929 - Remove unneceesary (and incorrect) SCons.Util strings on some function
4930 calls in SCons.Util.
4934 - Fix C/C++ compiler selection on AIX to not always use the external $CC
4935 environment variable.
4937 From August Hörandl:
4939 - Add a scanner for \include and \import files, with support for
4940 searching a directory list in $TEXINPUTS (imported from the external
4943 - Support $MAKEINDEX, $MAKEINDEXCOM, $MAKEINDEXCOMSTR and
4944 $MAKEINDEXFLAGS for generating indices from .idx files.
4946 From Steven Johnson:
4948 - Add a NoClean() Environment method and function to override removal
4949 of targets during a -c clean, including documentation and tests.
4953 - Check for whether files exist on disk by listing the directory
4954 contents, not calling os.path.exists() file by file. This is
4955 somewhat more efficient in general, and may be significantly
4956 more efficient on Windows.
4958 - Minor speedups in the internal is_Dict(), is_List() and is_String()
4961 - Fix a signature refactoring bug that caused Qt header files to
4962 get re-generated every time.
4964 - Don't fail when writing signatures if the .sconsign.dblite file is
4965 owned by a different user (e.g. root) from a previous run.
4967 - When deleting variables from stacked OverrideEnvironments, don't
4968 throw a KeyError if we were able to delte the variable from any
4969 Environment in the stack.
4971 - Get rid of the last indentation tabs in the SCons source files and
4972 add -tt to the Python invocations in the packaging build and the
4973 tests so they don't creep back in.
4975 - In Visual Studio project files, put quotes around the -C directory
4976 so everything works even if the path has spaces in it.
4978 - The Intel Fortran compiler uses -object:$TARGET, not "-o $TARGET",
4979 when building object files on Windows. Have the the ifort Tool
4980 modify the default command lines appropriately.
4982 - Document the --debug=explain option in the man page. (How did we
4985 - Add a $LATEXRETRIES variable to allow configuration of the number of
4986 times LaTex can be re-called to try to resolve undefined references.
4988 - Change the order of the arguments to Configure.Checklib() to match
4991 - Handle signature calculation properly when the Python function used
4992 for a FunctionAction is an object method.
4994 - On Windows, assume that absolute path names without a drive letter
4995 refer to the drive on which the SConstruct file lives.
4997 - Add /usr/ccs/bin to the end of the the default external execution
5000 - Add $PKGCHK and $PKGINFO variables for use on Solaris when searching
5001 for the SunPRO C++ compiler. Make the default value for $PKGCHK
5002 be /usr/sbin/pgkchk (since /usr/sbin isn't usually on the external
5005 - Fix a man page example of overriding variables when calling
5006 SharedLibrary() to also set the $LIBSUFFIXES variable.
5008 - Add a --taskmastertrace=FILE option to give some insight on how
5009 the taskmaster decides what Node to build next.
5011 - Changed the names of the old $WIN32DEFPREFIX, $WIN32DEFSUFFIX,
5012 $WIN32DLLPREFIX and $WIN32IMPLIBPREFIX construction variables to
5013 new $WINDOWSDEFPREFIX, $WINDOWSDEFSUFFIX, $WINDOWSDLLPREFIX and
5014 $WINDOWSIMPLIBPREFIX construction variables. The old names are now
5015 deprecated, but preserved for backwards compatibility.
5017 - Fix (?) a runtest.py hang on Windows when the --xml option is used.
5019 - Change the message when an error occurs trying to interact with the
5020 file system to report the target(s) in square brackets (as before) and
5021 the actual file or directory that encountered the error afterwards.
5025 - Add x64 support for Microsoft Visual Studio 8.
5027 From Baptiste Lepilleur:
5029 - Support the --debug=memory option on Windows when the Python version
5030 has the win32process and win32api modules.
5032 - Add support for Visual Studio 2005 Pro.
5034 - Fix portability issues in various tests: test/Case.py,
5035 Test/Java/{JAR,JARCHDIR,JARFLAGS,JAVAC,JAVACFLAGS,JAVAH,RMIC}.py,
5036 test/MSVS/vs-{6.0,7.0,7.1,8.0}-exec.py,
5037 test/Repository/{Java,JavaH,RMIC}.py,
5038 test/QT/{generated-ui,installed,up-to-date,warnings}.py,
5041 - Ignore pkgchk errors on Solaris when searching for the C++ compiler.
5043 - Speed up the SCons/EnvironmentTests.py unit tests.
5045 - Add a --verbose= option to runtest.py to print executed commands
5046 and their output at various levels.
5048 From Christian Maaser:
5050 - Add support for Visual Studio Express Editions.
5052 - Add support for Visual Studio 8 *.manifest files, includng
5053 new $WINDOWS_INSERT_MANIFEST, $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTSUFFIX,
5054 $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTPREFIX, $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTSUFFIX,
5055 $WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTPREFIX and $WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTSUFFIX
5056 construction variables.
5060 - Fix detection of additional Java inner classes following use of a
5061 "new" keyword inside an inner class.
5063 From Sanjoy Mahajan:
5065 - Correct TeX-related command lines to just $SOURCE, not $SOURCES
5067 From Patrick Mezard:
5069 - Execute build commands for a command-line target if any of the
5070 files built along with the target is out of date or non-existent,
5071 not just if the command-line target itself is out of date.
5073 - Fix the -n option when used with -c to print all of the targets
5074 that will be removed for a multi-target Builder call.
5076 - If there's no file in the source directory, make sure there isn't
5077 one in the build directory, too, to avoid dangling files left
5078 over from previous runs when a source file is removed.
5080 - Allow AppendUnique() and PrependUnique() to append strings (and
5081 other atomic objects) to lists.
5083 From Joel B. Mohler:
5085 - Extend latex.py, pdflatex.py, pdftex.py and tex.py so that building
5086 from both TeX and LaTeX files uses the same logic to call $BIBTEX
5087 when it's necessary, to call $MAKEINDEX when it's necessary, and to
5088 call $TEX or $LATEX multiple times to handle undefined references.
5090 - Add an emitter to the various TeX builders so that the generated
5091 .aux and .log files also get deleted by the -c option.
5093 From Leanid Nazdrynau:
5095 - Fix the Qt UIC scanner to work with generated .ui files (by using
5096 the FindFile() function instead of checking by-hand for the file).
5098 From Jan Nieuwenhuizen:
5100 - Fix a problem with interpreting quoted argument lists on command lines.
5104 - Add /sw/bin to the default execution PATH on Mac OS X.
5108 - When building a .jar file and there is a $JARCHDIR, put the -C
5109 in front of each .class file on the command line.
5111 - Recognize the Java 1.5 enum keyword.
5113 From Asfand Yar Qazi:
5115 - Add /opt/bin to the default execution PATH on all POSIX platforms
5116 (between /usr/local/bin and /bin).
5120 - Fix the use of Configure() contexts from nested subsidiary
5123 From Christoph Schulz:
5125 - Add support for $CONFIGUREDIR and $CONFIGURELOG variables to control
5126 the directory and logs for configuration tests.
5128 - Add support for a $INSTALLSTR variable.
5130 - Add support for $RANLIBCOM and $RANLIBCOMSTR variables (which fixes
5131 a bug when setting $ARCOMSTR).
5135 - Add use of $CPPDEFINES to $RCCOM (resource file compilation) on MinGW.
5137 From Erick Tryzelaar:
5139 - Fix the error message when trying to report that a given option is
5140 not gettable/settable from an SConscript file.
5142 From Dobes Vandermeer:
5144 - Add support for SCC and other settings in Microsoft Visual
5145 Studio project and solution files: $MSVS_PROJECT_BASE_PATH,
5146 $MSVS_PROJECT_GUID, $MSVS_SCC_AUX_PATH, $MSVS_SCC_LOCAL_PATH,
5147 $MSVS_SCC_PROJECT_NAME, $MSVS_SCC_PROVIDER,
5149 - Add support for using a $SCONS_HOME variable (imported from the
5150 external environment, or settable internally) to put a shortened
5151 SCons execution line in the Visual Studio project file.
5153 From David J. Van Maren:
5155 - Only filter common prefixes from source files names in Visual Studio
5156 project files if the prefix is a complete (sub)directory name.
5160 - If $MSVSVERSIONS is already set, don't overwrite it with
5161 information from the registry.
5165 RELEASE 0.96.91 - Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:18:23 -0400
5167 NOTE: This was a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes.
5171 - Have the environment store the toolpath and re-use it to find Tools
5172 modules during later Copy() or Tool() calls (unless overridden).
5174 - Normalize the directory path names in SConsignFile() database
5175 files so the same signature file can interoperate on Windows and
5176 non-Windows systems.
5178 - Make --debug=stacktrace print a stacktrace when a UserError is thrown.
5180 - Remove an old, erroneous cut-and-paste comment in Scanner/Dir.py.
5182 From Stanislav Baranov:
5184 - Make it possible to support with custom Alias (sub-)classes.
5186 - Allow Builders to take empty source lists when called.
5188 - Allow access to both TARGET and SOURCE in $*PATH expansions.
5190 - Allow SConscript files to modify BUILD_TARGETS.
5192 From Timothee Besset:
5194 - Add support for Objective C/C++ .m and .mm file suffixes (for
5199 - Fix the PharLap linkloc.py module to use target+source arguments
5200 when calling env.subst().
5202 From Bjorn Eriksson:
5204 - Fix an incorrect Command() keyword argument in the man page.
5206 - Add a $TEMPFILEPREFIX variable to control the prefix or flag used
5207 to pass a long-command-line-execution tempfile to a command.
5211 - Enhanced the SCons setup.py script to install man pages on
5214 - Add support for an Options.FormatOptionHelpText() method that can
5215 be overridden to customize the format of Options help text.
5217 - Add a global name for the Entry class (which had already been
5220 - Fix re-scanning of generated source files for implicit dependencies
5221 when the -j option is used.
5223 - Fix a dependency problem that caused $LIBS scans to not be added
5224 to all of the targets in a multiple-target builder call, which
5225 could cause out-of-order builds when the -j option is used.
5227 - Store the paths of source files and dependencies in the .sconsign*
5228 file(s) relative to the target's directory, not relative to the
5229 top-level SConstruct directory. This starts to make it possible to
5230 subdivide the dependency tree arbitrarily by putting an SConstruct
5231 file in every directory and using content signatures.
5233 - Add support for $YACCHFILESUFFIX and $YACCHXXFILESUFFIX variables
5234 that accomodate parser generators that write header files to a
5235 different suffix than the hard-coded .hpp when the -d option is used.
5237 - The default behavior is now to store signature information in a
5238 single .sconsign.dblite file in the top-level SConstruct directory.
5239 The old behavior of a separate .sconsign file in each directory can
5240 be specified by calling SConsignFile(None).
5242 - Remove line number byte codes within the signature calculation
5243 of Python function actions, so that changing the location of an
5244 otherwise unmodified Python function doesn't cause rebuilds.
5246 - Fix AddPreAction() and AddPostAction() when an action has more than
5247 one target file: attach the actions to the Executor, not the Node.
5249 - Allow the source directory of a BuildDir / build_dir to be outside
5250 of the top-level SConstruct directory tree.
5252 - Add a --debug=nomemoizer option that disables the Memoizer for clearer
5253 looks at the counts and profiles of the underlying function calls,
5254 not the Memoizer wrappers.
5256 - Print various --debug= stats even if we exit early (e.g. using -h).
5258 - Really only use the cached content signature value if the file
5259 is older than --max-drift, not just if --max-drift is set.
5261 - Remove support for conversion from old (pre 0.96) .sconsign formats.
5263 - Add support for a --diskcheck option to enable or disable various
5264 on-disk checks: that File and Dir nodes match on-disk entries;
5265 whether an RCS file exists for a missing source file; whether an
5266 SCCS file exists for a missing source file.
5268 - Add a --raw argument to the sconsign script, so it can print a
5269 raw representation of each entry's NodeInfo dictionary.
5271 - Add the 'f90' and 'f95' tools to the list of Fortran compilers
5272 searched for by default.
5274 - Add the +Z option by default when compiling shared objects on
5279 - Handle Visual Studio project and solution files in Unicode.
5281 From Sanjoy Mahajan:
5283 - Fix a bad use of Copy() in an example in the man page, and a
5284 bad regular expression example in the man page and User's Guide.
5288 - Have the Visual Studio project file(s) echo "Starting SCons" before
5289 executing SCons, mainly to work around a quote-stripping bug in
5290 (some versions of?) the Windows cmd command executor.
5292 From Georg Mischler:
5294 - Remove the space after the -o option when invoking the Borland
5295 BCC compiler; some versions apparently require that the file name
5296 argument be concatenated with the option.
5298 From Leanid Nazdrynau:
5300 - Fix the Java parser's handling of backslashes in strings.
5304 - Add construction variables to support frameworks on Mac OS X:
5305 $FRAMEWORKS, $FRAMEWORKPREFIX, $FRAMEWORKPATH, $FRAMEWORKPATHPREFIX.
5307 - Re-order link lines so the -o option always comes right after the
5310 From Gary Oberbrunner:
5312 - Add support for Intel C++ beta 9.0 (both 32 and 64 bit versions).
5314 - Document the new $FRAMEWORK* variables for Mac OS X.
5316 From Karol Pietrzak:
5318 - Add $RPATH (-R) support to the Sun linker Tool (sunlink).
5320 - Add a description of env.subst() to the man page.
5324 - Look in the right directory, not always the local directory, for a
5325 same-named file or directory conflict on disk.
5327 - On Windows, preserve the external environment's %SYSTEMDRIVE%
5332 - Have the Fortran module emitter look for Fortan modules to be created
5333 relative to $FORTRANMODDIR, not the top-level directory.
5335 - When saving Options to a file, run default values through the
5336 converter before comparing them with the set values. This correctly
5337 suppresses Boolean Option values from getting written to the saved
5338 file when they're one of the many synonyms for a default True or
5341 - Fix the Fortran Scanner's ability to handle a module being used
5342 in the same file in which it is defined.
5346 - Add the -KPIC option by default when compiling shared objects on
5349 - Change the default suffix for Solaris objects to .o, to conform to
5350 Sun WorkShop's expectations. Change the profix to so_ so they can
5351 still be differentiated from static objects in the same directory.
5355 - When calling the resource compiler on MinGW, add --include-dir and
5356 the source directory so it finds the source file.
5358 - Update EnsureSConsVersion() to support revision numbers.
5362 - Fix a misplaced line in the man page.
5366 RELEASE 0.96.90 - Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:21:12 +0000
5368 NOTE: This was a pre-release of 0.97 for testing purposes.
5372 - Fix Java parsing to avoid erroneously identifying a new array
5373 of class instances as an anonymous inner class.
5375 - Fix a typo in the man page description of PathIsDirCreate.
5379 - Allow Help() to be called multiple times, appending to the help
5382 - Allow Tools found on a toolpath to import Python modules from
5383 their local directory.
5385 From Steve Christensen:
5387 - Handle exceptions from Python functions as build actions.
5389 - Add a set of canned PathOption validators: PathExists (the default),
5390 PathIsFile, PathIsDir and PathIsDirCreate.
5394 - Add support for .lex and .yacc file suffixes for Lex and Yacc files.
5398 - Huge performance improvement: wrap the tuples representing an
5399 include path in an object, so that the time it takes to hash the
5400 path doesn't grow porportionally to the length of the path.
5402 From Gottfried Ganssauge:
5404 - Fix SCons on SuSE/AMD-64 Linux by having the wrapper script also
5405 check for the build engine in the parent directory of the Python
5406 library directory (/usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib).
5408 From Stephen Kennedy:
5410 - Speed up writing the .sconsign file at the end of a run by only
5411 calling sync() once at the end, not after every entry.
5415 - When compiling with Microsoft Visual Studio, don't include the ATL and
5416 MFC directories in the default INCLUDE and LIB environment variables.
5418 - Remove the following deprecated features: the ParseConfig()
5419 global function (deprecated in 0.93); the misspelled "validater"
5420 keyword to the Options.Add() method (deprecated in 0.91); the
5421 SetBuildSignatureType(), SetContentSignatureType(), SetJobs() and
5422 GetJobs() global functions (deprecated in 0.14).
5424 - Fix problems with corrupting the .sconsign.dblite file when
5425 interrupting builds by writing to a temporary file and renaming,
5426 not writing the file directly.
5428 - Fix a 0.96 regression where when running with -k, targets built from
5429 walking dependencies later on the command line would not realize
5430 that a dependency had failed an earlier build attempt, and would
5431 try to rebuild the dependent targets.
5433 - Change the final messages when using -k and errors occur from
5434 "{building,cleaning} terminated because of errors" to "done
5435 {building,cleaning} targets (errors occurred during {build,clean})."
5437 - Allow Configure.CheckFunc() to take an optional header argument
5438 (already supported by Conftest.py) to specify text at the top of
5439 the compiled test file.
5441 - Fix the --debug=explain output when a Python function action changed
5442 so it prints a meaningful string, not the binary representation of
5443 the function contents.
5445 - Allow a ListOption's default value(s) to be a Python list of specified
5446 values, not just a string containing a comma-separated list of names.
5448 - Add a ParseDepends() function that will parse up a list of explicit
5449 dependencies from a "make depend" style file.
5451 - Support the ability to change directory when executing an Action
5452 through "chdir" keyword arguments to Action and Builder creation
5455 - Fix handling of Action ojects (and other callables that don't match
5456 our calling arguments) in construction variable expansions.
5458 - On Win32, install scons.bat in the Python directory when installing
5459 from setup.py. (The bdist_wininst installer was already doing this.)
5461 - Fix env.SConscript() when called with a list of SConscipt files.
5462 (The SConscript() global function already worked properly.)
5464 - Add a missing newline to the end of the --debug=explain "unknown
5467 - Enhance ParseConfig() to work properly for spaces in between the -I,
5468 -L and -l options and their arguments.
5470 - Packaging build fix: Rebuild the files that are use to report the
5471 --version of SCons whenever the development version number changes.
5473 - Fix the ability to specify a target_factory of Dir() to a Builder,
5474 which the default create-a-directory Builder was interfering with.
5476 - Mark a directory as built if it's created as part of the preparation
5477 for another target, to avoid trying to build it again when it comes
5478 up in the target list.
5480 - Allow a function with the right calling signature to be put directly
5481 in an Environment's BUILDERS dictionary, making for easier creation
5482 and use of wrappers (pseudo-Builders) that call other Builders.
5484 - On Python 2.x, wrap lists of Nodes returned by Builders in a UserList
5485 object that adds a method that makes str() object return a string
5486 with all of the Nodes expanded to their path names. (Builders under
5487 Python 1.5.2 still return lists to avoid TypeErrors when trying
5488 to extend() list, so Python 1.5.2 doesn't get pretty-printing of Node
5489 lists, but everything should still function.)
5491 - Allow Aliases to have actions that will be executed whenever
5492 any of the expanded Alias targets are out of date.
5494 - Fix expansion of env.Command() overrides within target and
5497 - Support easier customization of what's displayed by various default
5498 actions by adding lots of new construction variables: $ARCOMSTR,
5499 $ASCOMSTR, $ASPPCOMSTR, $BIBTEXCOMSTR, $BITKEEPERCOMSTR, $CCCOMSTR,
5500 $CVSCOMSTR, $CXXCOMSTR, $DCOMSTR, $DVIPDFCOMSTR, $F77COMSTR,
5501 $F90COMSTR, $F95COMSTR, $FORTRANCOMSTR, $GSCOMSTR, $JARCOMSTR,
5502 $JAVACCOMSTR, $JAVAHCOMSTR, $LATEXCOMSTR, $LEXCOMSTR, $LINKCOMSTR,
5503 $M4COMSTR, $MIDLCOMSTR, $P4COMSTR, $PCHCOMSTR, $PDFLATEXCOMSTR,
5504 $PDFTEXCOMSTR, $PSCOMSTR, $QT_MOCFROMCXXCOMSTR, $QT_MOCFROMHCOMSTR,
5505 $QT_UICCOMSTR, $RCCOMSTR, $REGSVRCOMSTR, $RCS_COCOMSTR, $RMICCOMSTR,
5506 $SCCSCOMSTR, $SHCCCOMSTR, $SHCXXCOMSTR, $SHF77COMSTR, $SHF90COMSTR,
5507 $SHF95COMSTR, $SHFORTRANCOMSTR, $SHLINKCOMSTR, $SWIGCOMSTR,
5508 $TARCOMSTR, $TEXCOMSTR, $YACCCOMSTR and $ZIPCOMSTR.
5510 - Add an optional "map" keyword argument to ListOption() that takes a
5511 dictionary to map user-specified values to legal values from the list
5512 (like EnumOption() already doee).
5514 - Add specific exceptions to try:-except: blocks without any listed,
5515 so that they won't catch and mask keyboard interrupts.
5517 - Make --debug={tree,dtree,stree} print something even when there's
5520 - Fix how Scanners sort the found dependencies so that it doesn't
5521 matter whether the dependency file is in a Repository or not.
5522 This may cause recompilations upon upgrade to this version.
5524 - Make AlwaysBuild() work with Alias and Python value Nodes (making
5525 it much simpler to support aliases like "clean" that just invoke
5526 an arbitrary action).
5528 - Have env.ParseConfig() use AppendUnique() by default to suppress
5529 duplicate entries from multiple calls. Add a "unique" keyword
5530 argument to allow the old behavior to be specified.
5532 - Allow the library modules imported by an SConscript file to get at
5533 all of the normally-available global functions and variables by saying
5534 "from SCons.Script import *".
5536 - Add a --debug=memoizer option to print Memoizer hit/mass statistics.
5538 - Allow more than one --debug= option to be set at a time.
5540 - Change --debug=count to report object counts before and after
5541 reading SConscript files and before and after building targets.
5543 - Change --debug=memory output to line up the numbers and to better
5544 match (more or less) the headers on the --debug=count columns.
5546 - Speed things up when there are lists of targets and/or sources by
5547 getting rid of some N^2 walks of the lists involved.
5549 - Cache evaluation of LazyActions so we don't create a new object
5550 for each invocation.
5552 - When scanning, don't create Nodes for include files that don't
5553 actually exist on disk.
5555 - Make supported global variables CScanner, DScanner, ProgramScanner and
5556 SourceFileScanner. Make SourceFileScanner.add_scanner() a supported
5557 part of the public interface. Keep the old SCons.Defaults.*Scan names
5558 around for a while longer since some people were already using them.
5560 - By default, don't scan directories for on-disk files. Add a
5561 DirScanner global scanner that can be used in Builders or Command()
5562 calls that want source directory trees scanned for on-disk changes.
5563 Have the Tar() and Zip() Builders use the new DirScanner to preserve
5564 the behavior of rebuilding a .tar or .zip file if any file or
5565 directory under a source tree changes. Add Command() support for
5566 a source_scanner keyword argument to Command() that can be set to
5567 DirScanner to get this behavior.
5569 - Documentation changes: Explain that $CXXFLAGS contains $CCFLAGS
5570 by default. Fix a bad target_factory example in the man page.
5571 Add appendices to the User's Guide to cover the available Tools,
5572 Builders and construction variables. Comment out the build of
5573 the old Python 10 paper, which doesn't build on all systems and
5574 is old enough at this point that it probably isn't worth the
5575 effort to make it do so.
5579 - Avoid "maximum recursion limit" errors when removing $(-$) pairs
5580 from long command lines.
5582 From Clive Levinson:
5584 - Make ParseConfig() recognize and add -mno-cygwin to $LINKFLAGS and
5585 $CCFLAGS, and -mwindows to $LINKFLAGS.
5587 From Michael McCracken:
5589 - Add a new "applelink" tool to handle the things like Frameworks and
5590 bundles that Apple has added to gcc for linking.
5592 - Use more appropriate default search lists of linkers, compilers and
5593 and other tools for the 'darwin' platform.
5595 - Add a LoadableModule Builder that builds a bundle on Mac OS X (Darwin)
5596 and a shared library on other systems.
5598 - Improve SWIG tests for use on Mac OS X (Darwin).
5602 - Enhance the tests to guarantee persistence of ListOption
5603 values in saved options files.
5605 - Supply the help text when -h is used with the -u, -U or -D options.
5607 From Christian Neeb:
5609 - Fix the Java parser's handling of string definitions to avoid ignoring
5612 From Han-Wen Nienhuys:
5614 - Optimize variable expansion by: using the re.sub() method (when
5615 possible); not using "eval" for variables for which we can fetch the
5616 value directory; avoiding slowing substitution logic when there's no
5619 From Gary Oberbrunner:
5621 - Add an Environment.Dump() method to print the contents of a
5622 construction environment.
5624 - Allow $LIBS (and similar variables) to contain explicit File Nodes.
5626 - Change ParseConfig to add the found library names directly to the
5627 $LIBS variable, instead of returning them.
5629 - Add ParseConfig() support for the -framework GNU linker option.
5631 - Add a PRINT_CMD_LINE_FUNC construction variable to allow people
5632 to filter (or log) command-line output.
5634 - Print an internal Python stack trace in response to an otherwise
5635 unexplained error when --debug=stacktrace is specified.
5637 - Add a --debug=findlibs option to print what's happening when
5638 the scanner is searching for libraries.
5640 - Allow Tool specifications to be passed a dictionary of keyword
5643 - Support an Options default value of None, in which case the variable
5644 will not be added to the construction environment unless it's set
5645 explicitly by the user or from an Options file.
5647 - Avoid copying __builtin__ values into a construction environment's
5648 dictionary when evaluating construction variables.
5650 - Add a new cross-platform intelc.py Tool that can detect and
5651 configure the Intel C++ v8 compiler on both Windows, where it's
5652 named icl, and Linux, where it's named icc. It also checks that
5653 the directory specified in the Windows registry exists, and sets a
5654 new $INTEL_C_COMPILER_VERSION construction variable to identify the
5655 version being used. (Niall Douglas contributed an early prototype
5656 of parts of this module.)
5658 - Fix the private Conftest._Have() function so it doesn't change
5659 non-alphanumeric characters to underscores.
5661 - Supply a better error message when a construction variable expansion
5662 has an unknown attribute.
5664 - Documentation changes: Update the man page to describe use of
5665 filenames or Nodes in $LIBS.
5669 - Have the linkloc tool use $MSVS_VERSION to select the Microsoft
5670 Visual Studio version to use.
5674 - Fix the Builder name returned from ListBuilders and other instances
5675 of subclasses of the BuilderBase class.
5677 - Add Builders and construction variables to support rpcgen:
5678 RPCGenClient(), RPCGenHeader(), RPCGenService(), RPCGenXDR(),
5679 $RPCGEN, $RPCGENFLAGS, $RPCGENCLIENTFLAGS, $RPCGENHEADERFLAGS,
5680 $RPCGENSERVICEFLAGS, $RPCGENXDRFLAGS.
5682 - Update the man page to document that prefix and suffix Builder
5683 keyword arguments can be strings, callables or dictionaries.
5685 - Provide more info in the error message when a user tries to build
5686 a target multiple ways.
5688 - Fix Delete() when a file doesn't exist and must_exist=1. (We were
5689 unintentionally dependent on a bug in versions of the Python shutil.py
5690 module prior to Python 2.3, which would generate an exception for
5691 a nonexistent file even when ignore_errors was set.)
5693 - Only replace a Node's builder with a non-null source builder.
5695 - Fix a stack trace when a suffix selection dictionary is passed
5696 an empty source file list.
5698 - Allow optional names to be attached to Builders, for default
5699 Builders that don't get attached to construction environments.
5701 - Fix problems with Parallel Task Exception handling.
5703 - Build targets in an associated BuildDir even if there are targets
5704 or subdirectories locally in the source directory.
5706 - If a FunctionAction has a callable class as its underlying Python
5707 function, use its strfunction() method (if any) to display the
5710 - Fix handling when BuildDir() exists but is unwriteable. Add
5711 "Stop." to those error messages for consistency.
5713 - Catch incidents of bad builder creation (without an action) and
5714 supply meaningful error messages.
5716 - Fix handling of src_suffix values that aren't extensions (don't
5719 - Don't retrieve files from a CacheDir, but report what would happen,
5720 when the -n option is used.
5722 - Use the source_scanner from the target Node, not the source node
5725 - Internal Scanners fixes: Make sure Scanners are only passed Nodes.
5726 Fix how a Scanner.Selector called its base class initialization.
5727 Make comparisons of Scanner objects more robust. Add a name to
5728 an internal default ObjSourceScanner.
5730 - Add a deprecated warning for use of the old "scanner" keyword argument
5731 to Builder creation.
5733 - Improve the --debug=explain message when the build action changes.
5735 - Test enhancements in SourceCode.py, option-n.py, midl.py. Better
5736 Command() and Scanner test coverage. Improved test infrastructure
5739 - Refactor the interface between Action and Executor objects to treat
5742 - The --debug=presub option will now report the pre-substitution
5743 each action seprately, instead of reporting the entire list before
5744 executing the actions one by one.
5746 - The --debug=explain option explaining a changed action will now
5747 (more correctly) show pre-substitution action strings, instead of
5748 the commands with substituted file names.
5750 - A Node (file) will now be rebuilt if its PreAction or PostAction
5753 - Python Function actions now have their calling signature (target,
5754 source, env) reported correctly when displayed.
5756 - Fix BuildDir()/build_dir handling when the build_dir is underneath
5757 the source directory and trying to use entries from the build_dir
5758 as sources for other targets in the build-dir.
5760 - Fix hard-coding of JDK path names in various Java tests.
5762 - Handle Python stack traces consistently (stop at the SConscript stack
5763 frame, by default) even if the Python source code isn't available.
5765 - Improve the performance of the --debug={tree,dtree} options.
5767 - Add --debug=objects logging of creation of OverrideWarner,
5768 EnvironmentCopy and EnvironmentOverride objects.
5770 - Fix command-line expansion of Python Value Nodes.
5772 - Internal cleanups: Remove an unnecessary scan argument. Associate
5773 Scanners only with Builders, not nodes. Apply overrides once when
5774 a Builder is called, not in multiple places. Cache results from the
5775 Node.FS.get_suffix() and Node.get_build_env() methods. Use the Python
5776 md5 modules' hexdigest() method, if there is one. Have Taskmaster
5777 call get_stat() once for each Node and re-use the value instead of
5778 calling it each time it needs the value. Have Node.depends_on()
5779 re-use the list from the children() method instead of calling it
5782 - Use the correct scanner if the same source file is used for targets in
5783 two different environments with the same path but different scanners.
5785 - Collect logic for caching values in memory in a Memoizer class,
5786 which cleans up a lot of special-case code in various methods and
5787 caches additional values to speed up most configurations.
5789 - Add a PathAccept validator to the list of new canned PathOption
5794 - Documentation changes: Use $CPPDEFINES instead of $CCFLAGS in man
5799 - Allow $JARCHDIR to be expanded to other construction variables.
5801 From Christoph Wiedemann:
5803 - Add an Environment.SetDefault() method that only sets values if
5804 they aren't already set.
5806 - Have the qt.py Tool not override variables already set by the user.
5808 - Add separate $QT_BINPATH, $QT_CPPPATH and $QT_LIBPATH variables
5809 so these can be set individually, instead of being hard-wired
5812 - The %TEMP% and %TMP% external environment variables are now propagated
5813 automatically to the command execution environment on Windows systems.
5815 - A new --config= command-line option allows explicit control of
5816 of when the Configure() tests are run: --config=force forces all
5817 checks to be run, --config=cache uses all previously cached values,
5818 --config=auto (the default) runs tests only when dependency analysis
5819 determines it's necessary.
5821 - The Configure() subsystem can now write a config.h file with values
5822 like HAVE_STDIO_H, HAVE_LIBM, etc.
5824 - The Configure() subsystem now executes its checks silently when the
5825 -Q option is specified.
5827 - The Configure() subsystem now reports if a test result is being
5828 taken from cache, and prints the standard output and error output
5829 of tests even when cached.
5831 - Configure() test results are now reported as "yes" or "no" instead of
5834 - Fixed traceback printing when calling the env.Configure() method
5835 instead of the Configure() global function.
5837 - The Configure() subsystem now caches build failures in a .sconsign
5838 file in the subdirectory, not a .cache file. This may cause
5839 tests to be re-executed the first time after you install 0.97.
5841 - Additional significant internal cleanups in the Configure() subsystem
5844 - Have the Qt Builder make uic-generated files dependent on the .ui.h
5845 file, if one exists.
5847 - Add a test to make sure that SCons source code does not contain
5848 try:-except: blocks that catch all errors, which potentially catch
5849 and mask keyboard interrupts.
5851 - Fix us of TargetSignatures('content') with the SConf subsystem.
5853 From Russell Yanofsky:
5855 - Add support for the Metrowerks Codewarrior compiler and linker
5860 RELEASE 0.96.1 - Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:55:50 +0000
5862 From Craig Bachelor:
5864 - Handle white space in the executable Python path name within in MSVS
5865 project files by quoting the path.
5867 - Correct the format of a GUID string in a solution (.dsw) file so
5868 MSVS can correctly "build enable" a project.
5872 - Add a must_exist flag to Delete() to let the user control whether
5873 it's an error if the specified entry doesn't exist. The default
5874 behavior is now to silently do nothing if it doesn't exist.
5876 - Package up the new Platform/darwin.py, mistakenly left out of 0.96.
5878 - Make the scons.bat REM statements into @REM so they aren't printed.
5880 - Make the SCons packaging SConscript files platform independent.
5884 - Fix scanning of pre-compiled header (.pch) files for #includes,
5889 RELEASE 0.96 - Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:36:40 +0000
5893 - Make the CacheDir() directory if it doesn't already exist.
5895 - Allow construction variable substitutions in $LIBS specifications.
5897 - Allow the emitter argument to a Builder() to be or expand to a list
5898 of emitter functions, which will be called in sequence.
5900 - Suppress null values in construction variables like $LIBS that use
5901 the internal _concat() function.
5903 - Remove .dll files from the construction variables searched for
5904 libraries that can be fed to Win32 compilers.
5906 From Chad Austin and Christoph Wiedemann:
5908 - Add support for a $RPATH variable to supply a list of directories
5909 to search for shared libraries when linking a program. Used by
5910 the GNU and IRIX linkers (gnulink and sgilink).
5914 - Restore the ability to do construction variable substitutions in all
5915 kinds of *PATH variables, even when the substitution returns a Node
5920 - Allow the Java() Builder to take more than one source directory.
5922 From Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve:
5924 - Have SConsignFile() use, by default, a custom "dblite.py" that we can
5925 control and guarantee to work on all Python versions (or nearly so).
5927 From Jonathan Gurley:
5929 - Add support for the newer "ifort" versions of the Intel Fortran
5934 - Make the new *FLAGS variable type work with copied Environments.
5936 From Chris Hoeppler:
5938 - Initialize the name of a Scanner.Classic scanner correctly.
5942 - Add support for the .dylib shared library suffix and the -dynamiclib
5943 linker option on Mac OS X.
5947 - Add an Execute() method for executing actions directly.
5949 - Support passing environment override keyword arguments to Command().
5951 - Fix use of $MSVS_IGNORE_IDE_PATHS, which was broken when we added
5952 support for $MSVS_USE_MFC_DIRS last release.
5954 - Make env.Append() and env.Prepend() act like the underlying Python
5955 behavior when the variable being appended to is a UserList object.
5957 - Fix a regression that prevented the Command() global function in
5958 0.95 from working with command-line strings as actions.
5960 - Fix checking out a file from a source code management system when
5961 the env.SourceCode() method was called with an individual file name
5962 or node, not a directory name or node.
5964 - Enhance the Task.make_ready() method to create a list of the
5965 out-of-date Nodes for the task for use by the wrapping interface.
5967 - Allow Scanners to pull the list of suffixes from the construction
5968 environment when the "skeys" keyword argument is a string containing
5969 a construction variable to be expanded.
5971 - Support new $CPPSUFFIXES, $DSUFFIXES $FORTRANSUFFIXES, and
5972 $IDLSUFFIXES. construction variables that contain the default list
5973 of suffixes to be scanned by a given type of scanner, allowing these
5974 suffix lists to be easily added to or overridden.
5976 - Speed up Node creation when calling a Builder by comparing whether two
5977 Environments are the same object, not if their underlying dictionaries
5980 - Add a --debug=explain option that reports the reason(s) why SCons
5981 thinks it must rebuild something.
5983 - Add support for functions that return platform-independent Actions
5984 to Chmod(), Copy(), Delete(), Mkdir(), Move() and Touch() files
5985 and/or directories. Like any other Actions, the returned Action
5986 object may be executed directly using the Execute() global function
5987 or env.Execute() environment method, or may be used as a Builder
5988 action or in an env.Command() action list.
5990 - Add support for the strfunction argument to all types of Actions:
5991 CommandAction, ListAction, and CommandGeneratorAction.
5993 - Speed up turning file system Nodes into strings by caching the
5994 values after we're finished reading the SConscript files.
5996 - Have ParseConfig() recognize and supporting adding the -Wa, -Wl,
5997 and -Wp, flags to ASFLAGS, LINKFLAGS and CPPFLAGS, respectively.
5999 - Change the .sconsign format and the checks for whether a Node is
6000 up-to-date to make dependency checks more efficient and correct.
6002 - Add wrapper Actions to SCons.Defaults for $ASCOM, $ASPPCOM, $LINKCOM,
6003 $SHLINKCOM, $ARCOM, $LEXCOM and $YACCCOM. This makes it possible
6004 to replace the default print behavior with a custom strfunction()
6007 - When a Node has been built, don't walk the whole tree back to delete
6008 the parents's implicit dependencies, let returning up the normal
6009 Taskmaster descent take care of it for us.
6011 - Add documented support for separate target_scanner and source_scanner
6012 arguments to Builder creation, which allows different scanners to
6013 be applied to source files
6015 - Don't re-install or (re-generate) .h files when a subsidiary #included
6016 .h file changes. This eliminates incorrect circular dependencies
6017 with .h files generated from other source files.
6019 - Slim down the internal Sig.Calculator class by eliminating methods
6020 whose functionality is now covered by Node methods.
6022 - Document use of the target_factory and source_factory keyword
6023 arguments when creating Builder objects. Enhance Dir Nodes so that
6024 they can be created with user-specified Builder objects.
6026 - Don't blow up with stack trace when the external $PATH environment
6029 - Make Builder calls return lists all the time, even if there's only
6030 one target. This keeps things consistent and easier to program to
6033 - Add a Flatten() function to make it easier to deal with the Builders
6034 all returning lists of targets, not individual targets.
6036 - Performance optimizations in Node.FS.__doLookup().
6038 - Man page fixes: formatting typos, misspellings, bad example.
6040 - User's Guide fixes: Fix the signatures of the various example
6041 *Options() calls. Triple-quote properly a multi-line Split example.
6043 - User's Guide additions: Chapter describing File and Directory
6044 Nodes. Section describing declarative nature of SCons functions in
6045 SConscript files. Better organization and clarification of points
6046 raised by Robert P. J. Day. Chapter describing SConf (Autoconf-like)
6047 functionality. Chapter describing how to install Python and
6048 SCons. Chapter describing Java builds.
6052 - Add a .win32 attribute to force file names to expand with
6053 Windows backslash path separators.
6055 - Fix escaping file names on command lines when the expansion is
6056 concatenated with another string.
6058 - Add support for Fortran 90 and Fortran 95. This adds $FORTRAN*
6059 variables that specify a default compiler, command-line, flags,
6060 etc. for all Fortran versions, plus separate $F90* and $F95*
6061 variables for when different compilers/flags/etc. must be specified
6062 for different Fortran versions.
6064 - Have individual tools that create libraries override the default
6065 $LIBPREFIX and $LIBSUFFIX values set by the platform. This makes
6066 it easier to use Microsoft Visual Studio tools on a CygWin platform.
6068 From Gary Oberbrunner:
6070 - Add a --debug=presub option to print actions prior to substitution.
6072 - Add a warning upon use of the override keywords "targets" and
6073 "sources" when calling Builders. These are usually mistakes which
6074 are otherwise silently (and confusingly) turned into construction
6077 - Try to find the ICL license file path name in the external environment
6078 and the registry before resorting to the hard-coded path name.
6080 - Add support for fetching command-line keyword=value arguments in
6081 order from an ARGLIST list.
6083 - Avoid stack traces when trying to read dangling symlinks.
6085 - Treat file "extensions" that only contain digits as part of the
6086 file basename. This supports version numbers as part of shared
6087 library names, for example.
6089 - Avoid problems when there are null entries (None or '') in tool
6092 - Add an example and explanation of how to use "tools = ['default', ..."
6093 when creating a construction environment.
6095 - Add a section describing File and Directory Nodes and some of their
6096 attributes and methods.
6098 - Have ParseConfig() add a returned -pthread flag to both $CCFLAGS
6101 - Fix some test portability issues on Mac OS X (darwin).
6105 - Fix a bug introduced in building shared libraries under MinGW.
6109 - Handling SCons exceptions according to Pythonic standards.
6111 - Fix test/chained-build.py on systems that execute within one second.
6113 - Fix tests on systems where 'ar' warns about archive creation.
6117 - Fix use of the --implicit-cache option with timestamp signatures.
6119 - If Visual Studio is installed, assume the C/C++ compiler, the linker
6120 and the MIDL compiler that comes with it are available, too.
6122 - Better error messages when evaluating a construction variable
6123 expansion yields a Python syntax error.
6125 - Change the generation of PDB files when using Visual Studio from
6126 compile time to link time.
6130 - Allow SConf.CheckLib() to search a list of libraries, like the
6131 Autoconf AC_SEARCH_LIBS macro.
6133 - Allow the env.WhereIs() method to take a "reject" argument to
6134 let it weed out specific path names.
6136 From Christoph Wiedemann:
6138 - Add new Moc() and Uic() Builders for more explicit control over
6139 Qt builds, plus new construction variables to control them:
6140 $QT_AUTOSCAN, $QT_DEBUG, $QT_MOCCXXPREFIX, $QT_MOCCXXSUFFIX,
6141 $QT_MOCHPREFIX, $QT_MOCHSUFFIX, $QT_UICDECLPREFIX, $QT_UICDECLSUFFIX,
6142 $QT_UICIMPLPREFIX, $QT_UICIMPLSUFFIX and $QT_UISUFFIX.
6144 - Add a new single_source keyword argument for Builders that enforces
6145 a single source file on calls to the Builder.
6149 RELEASE 0.95 - Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:43:20 -0600
6153 - Replace print statements with calls to sys.stdout.write() so output
6154 lines stay together when -j is used.
6156 - Add portability fixes for a number of tests.
6158 - Accomodate the fact that Cygwin's os.path.normcase() lies about
6159 the underlying system being case-sensitive.
6161 - Fix an incorrect _concat() call in the $RCINCFLAGS definition for
6164 - Fix a problem with the msvc tool with Python versions prior to 2.3.
6166 - Add support for a "toolpath" Tool() and Environment keyword that
6167 allows Tool modules to be found in specified local directories.
6169 - Work around Cygwin Python's silly fiction that it's using a
6170 case-sensitive file system.
6172 - More robust handling of data in VCComponents.dat.
6174 - If the "env" command is available, spawn commands with the more
6175 general "env -" instead of "env -i".
6177 From Kerim Borchaev:
6179 - Fix a typo in a msvc.py's registry lookup: "VCComponents.dat", not
6182 From Chris Burghart:
6184 - Fix the ability to save/restore a PackageOption to a file.
6186 From Steve Christensen:
6188 - Update the MSVS .NET and MSVC 6.0/7.0 path detection.
6190 From David M. Cooke:
6192 - Make the Fortran scanner case-insensitive for the INCLUDE string.
6196 - If no version of MSVC is detected but the tool is specified,
6197 use the MSVC 6.0 paths by default.
6199 - Ignore any "6.1" version of MSVC found in the registry; this is a
6200 phony version number (created by later service packs?) and would
6201 throw off the logic if the user had any non-default paths configure.
6203 - Correctly detect if the user has independently configured the MSVC
6204 "include," "lib" or "path" in the registry and use the appropriate
6205 values. Previously, SCons would only use the values if all three
6206 were set in the registry.
6208 - Make sure side-effect nodes are prepare()d before building their
6209 corresponding target.
6211 - Preserve the ability to call BuildDir() multiple times with the
6212 same target and source directory arguments.
6216 - Add support for the Digital Mars "D" programming language.
6218 From Scott Lystig Fritchie:
6220 - Fix the ability to use a custom _concat() function in the
6221 construction environment when calling _stripixes().
6223 - Make the message about ignoring a missing SConscript file into a
6224 suppressable Warning, not a hard-coded sys.stderr.write().
6226 - If a builder can be called multiple times for a target (because
6227 the sources and overrides are identical, or it's a builder with the
6228 "multi" flag set), allow the builder to be called through multiple
6229 environments so long as the builders have the same signature for
6230 the environments in questions (that is, they're the same action).
6234 - When multiple targets are built by a single action, retrieve all
6235 of them from cache, not just the first target, and exec the build
6236 command if any of the targets isn't present in the cache.
6238 From Zephaniah Hull:
6240 - Fix command-line ARGUMENTS with multiple = in them.
6244 - Fix EnsureSConsVersion() so it checks against the SCons version,
6245 not the Python version, on Pythons with sys.version_info.
6247 - Don't swallow the AttributeError when someone uses an expansion like
6248 $TARGET.bak, so we can supply a more informative error message.
6250 - Fix an odd double-quote escape sequence in the man page.
6252 - Fix looking up a naked drive letter as a directory (Dir('C:')).
6254 - Support using File nodes in the LIBS construction variable.
6256 - Allow the LIBS construction variable to be a single string or File
6257 node, not a list, when only one library is needed.
6259 - Fix typos in the man page: JAVACHDIR => JARCHDIR; add "for_signature"
6260 to the __call__() example in the "Variable Substitution" section.
6262 - Correct error message spellings of "non-existant" to "non-existent."
6264 - When scanning for libraries to link with, don't append $LIBPREFIXES
6265 or $LIBSUFFIXES values to the $LIBS values if they're already present.
6267 - Add a ZIPCOMPRESSION construction variable to control whether the
6268 internal Python action for the Zip Builder compresses the file or
6269 not. The default value is zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED, which generates
6272 - Refactor construction variable expansion to support recursive
6273 expansion of variables (e.g. CCFLAGS = "$CCFLAGS -g") without going
6274 into an infinite loop. Support this in all construction variable
6275 overrides, as well as when copying Environments.
6277 - Fix calling Configure() from more than one subsidiary SConscript file.
6279 - Fix the env.Action() method so it returns the correct type of
6280 Action for its argument(s).
6282 - Fix specifying .class files as input to JavaH with the .class suffix
6283 when they weren't generated using the Java Builder.
6285 - Make the check for whether all of the objects going into a
6286 SharedLibrary() are shared work even if the object was built in a
6289 - Supply meaningful error messages, not stack traces, if we try to add
6290 a non-Node as a source, dependency, or ignored dependency of a Node.
6292 - Generate MSVS Project files that re-invoke SCons properly regardless
6293 of whether the file was built via scons.bat or scons.py.
6294 (Thanks to Niall Douglas for contributing code and testing.)
6296 - Fix TestCmd.py, runtest.py and specific tests to accomodate being
6297 run from directories whose paths include white space.
6299 - Provide a more useful error message if a construction variable
6300 expansion contains a syntax error during evaluation.
6302 - Fix transparent checkout of implicit dependency files from SCCS
6305 - Added new --debug=count, --debug=memory and --debug=objects options.
6306 --debug=count and --debug=objects only print anything when run
6307 under Python 2.1 or later.
6309 - Deprecate the "overrides" keyword argument to Builder() creation
6310 in favor of using keyword argument values directly (like we do
6311 for builder execution and the like).
6313 - Always use the Builder overrides in substitutions, not just if
6314 there isn't a target-specific environment.
6316 - Add new "rsrcpath" and "rsrcdir" and attributes to $TARGET/$SOURCE,
6317 so Builder command lines can find things in Repository source
6318 directories when using BuildDir.
6320 - Fix the M4 Builder so that it chdirs to the Repository directory
6321 when the input file is in the source directory of a BuildDir.
6323 - Save memory at build time by allowing Nodes to delete their build
6324 environments after they've been built.
6326 - Add AppendUnique() and PrependUnique() Environment methods, which
6327 add values to construction variables like Append() and Prepend()
6328 do, but suppress any duplicate elements in the list.
6330 - Allow the 'qt' tool to still be used successfully from a copied
6331 Environment. The include and library directories previously ended up
6332 having the same string re-appended to the end, yielding an incorrect
6335 - Supply a more descriptive error message when the source for a target
6338 - Initialize all *FLAGS variables with objects do the right thing with
6339 appending flags as strings or lists.
6341 - Make things like ${TARGET.dir} work in *PATH construction variables.
6343 - Allow a $MSVS_USE_MFC_DIRS construction variable to control whether
6344 ATL and MFC directories are included in the default INCLUDE and
6347 - Document the dbm_module argument to the SConsignFile() function.
6351 - Add support for the bcc32, ilink32 and tlib Borland tools.
6355 - Supply an error message if the user tries to configure a BuildDir
6356 for a directory that already has one.
6358 - Remove documentation of the still-unimplemented -e option.
6360 - Add -H help text listing the legal --debug values.
6362 - Don't choke if a construction variable is a non-string value.
6364 - Build Type Libraries in the target directory, not the source
6367 - Add an appendix to the User's Guide showing how to accomplish
6368 various common tasks in Python.
6372 - Add support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 (version 7.1).
6374 - Evaluate $MSVSPROJECTSUFFIX and $MSVSSOLUTIONSUFFIX when the Builder
6375 is invoked, not when the tool is initialized.
6377 From Christoph Wiedemann:
6379 - When compiling Qt, make sure the moc_*.cc files are compiled using
6380 the flags from the environment used to specify the target, not
6381 the environment that first has the Qt Builders attached.
6385 RELEASE 0.94 - Fri, 07 Nov 2003 05:29:48 -0600
6387 From Hartmut Goebel:
6389 - Add several new types of canned functions to help create options:
6390 BoolOption(), EnumOption(), ListOption(), PackageOption(),
6395 - Fix use of CPPDEFINES with C++ source files.
6397 - Fix env.Append() when the operand is an object with a __cmp__()
6398 method (like a Scanner instance).
6400 - Fix subclassing the Environment and Scanner classes.
6402 - Add BUILD_TARGETS, COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS and DEFAULT_TARGETS variables.
6406 - SGI fixes: Fix C++ compilation, add a separate Tool/sgic++.py module.
6408 From Gary Oberbrunner:
6410 - Fix how the man page un-indents after examples in some browsers.
6414 - Fix the C and C++ tool specifications for AIX.
6418 RELEASE 0.93 - Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:26:55 -0500
6422 - On POSIX, execute commands with the more modern os.spawnvpe()
6423 function, if it's available.
6425 - Scan .S, .spp and .SPP files for C preprocessor dependencies.
6427 - Refactor the Job.Parallel() class to use a thread pool without a
6428 condition variable. This improves parallel build performance and
6429 handles keyboard interrupts properly when -j is used.
6433 - Add support for a JARCHDIR variable to control changing to a
6434 directory using the jar -C option.
6436 - Add support for detecting Java manifest files when using jar,
6437 and specifying them using the jar m flag.
6439 - Fix some Python 2.2 specific things in various tool modules.
6441 - Support directories as build sources, so that a rebuild of a target
6442 can be triggered if anything underneath the directory changes.
6444 - Have the scons.bat and scons.py files look for the SCons modules
6445 in site-packages as well.
6447 From Christian Engel:
6449 - Support more flexible inclusion of separate C and C++ compilers.
6451 - Use package management tools on AIX and Solaris to find where
6452 the comilers are installed, and what version they are.
6454 - Add support for CCVERSION and CXXVERSION variables for a number
6455 of C and C++ compilers.
6459 - Add test cases for the new capabilities to run bibtex and to rerun
6462 From Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve:
6464 - Accomodate anydbm modules that don't have a sync() method.
6466 - Allow SConsignFile() to take an argument specifying the DBM
6469 From Stephen Kennedy:
6471 - Add support for a configurable global .sconsign.dbm file which
6472 can be used to avoid cluttering each directory with an individual
6477 - Fix (re-)scanning of dependencies in generated or installed
6482 - The -Q option suppressed too many messages; fix it so that it only
6483 suppresses the Reading/Building messages.
6485 - Support #include when there's no space before the opening quote
6488 - Accomodate alphanumeric version strings in EnsurePythonVersion().
6490 - Support arbitrary expansion of construction variables within
6491 file and directory arguments to Builder calls and Environment methods.
6493 - Add Environment-method versions of the following global functions:
6494 Action(), AddPostAction(), AddPreAction(), Alias(), Builder(),
6495 BuildDir(), CacheDir(), Clean(), Configure(), Default(),
6496 EnsurePythonVersion(), EnsureSConsVersion(), Environment(),
6497 Exit(), Export(), FindFile(), GetBuildPath(), GetOption(), Help(),
6498 Import(), Literal(), Local(), Platform(), Repository(), Scanner(),
6499 SConscriptChdir(), SConsignFile(), SetOption(), SourceSignatures(),
6500 Split(), TargetSignatures(), Tool(), Value().
6502 - Add the following global functions that correspond to the same-named
6503 Environment methods: AlwaysBuild(), Command(), Depends(), Ignore(),
6504 Install(), InstallAs(), Precious(), SideEffect() and SourceCode().
6506 - Add the following global functions that correspond to the default
6507 Builder methods supported by SCons: CFile(), CXXFile(), DVI(), Jar(),
6508 Java(), JavaH(), Library(), M4(), MSVSProject(), Object(), PCH(),
6509 PDF(), PostScript(), Program(), RES(), RMIC(), SharedLibrary(),
6510 SharedObject(), StaticLibrary(), StaticObject(), Tar(), TypeLibrary()
6513 - Rearrange the man page to show construction environment methods and
6514 global functions in the same list, and to explain the difference.
6516 - Alphabetize the explanations of the builder methods in the man page.
6518 - Rename the Environment.Environment class to Enviroment.Base.
6519 Allow the wrapping interface to extend an Environment by using its own
6520 subclass of Environment.Base and setting a new Environment.Environment
6521 variable as the calling entry point.
6523 - Deprecate the ParseConfig() global function in favor of a same-named
6524 construction environment method.
6526 - Allow the Environment.WhereIs() method to take explicit path and
6527 pathext arguments (like the underlying SCons.Util.WhereIs() function).
6529 - Remove the long-obsolete {Get,Set}CommandHandler() functions.
6531 - Enhance env.Append() to suppress null values when appropriate.
6533 - Fix ParseConfig() so it works regardless of initial construction
6536 Extend CheckHeader(), CheckCHeader(), CheckCXXHeader() and
6537 CheckLibWithHeader() to accept a list of header files that will be
6538 #included in the test. The last one in the list is assumed to be
6539 the one being checked for. (Prototype code contributed by Gerard
6540 Patel and Niall Douglas).
6542 - Supply a warning when -j is used and threading isn't built in to
6543 the current version of Python.
6545 - First release of the User's Guide (finally, and despite a lot
6546 of things still missing from it...).
6550 - Generalize the action for .tex files so that it will decide whether
6551 a file is TeX or LaTeX, check the .aux output to decide if it should
6552 run bibtex, and check the .log output to re-run LaTeX if needed.
6554 From Bram Moolenaar:
6556 - Split the non-SCons-specific functionality from SConf.py to a new,
6557 re-usable Conftest.py module.
6559 From Gary Oberbrunner:
6561 - Allow a directory to be the target or source or dependency of a
6562 Depends(), Ignore(), Precious() or SideEffect() call.
6566 - Use the %{_mandir} macro when building our RPM package.
6568 From Marko Rauhamaa:
6570 - Have the closing message say "...terminated because of errors" if
6575 - On Win32 systems, only use "rm" to delete files if Cygwin is being
6576 used. ("rm" doesn't understand Win32-format path names.)
6578 From Christoph Wiedemann:
6580 - Fix test/SWIG.py to find the Python include directory in all cases.
6582 - Fix a bug in detection of Qt installed on the local system.
6584 - Support returning Python 2.3 BooleanType values from Configure checks.
6586 - Provide an error message if someone mistakenly tries to call a
6587 Configure check from within a Builder function.
6589 - Support calling a Builder when a Configure context is still open.
6591 - Handle interrupts better by eliminating all try:-except: blocks
6592 which caught any and all exceptions, including KeyboardInterrupt.
6594 - Add a --duplicate= option to control how files are duplicated.
6598 RELEASE 0.92 - Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:45:28 -0500
6600 From Charles Crain and Gary Oberbrunner:
6602 - Fix Tool import problems with the Intel and PharLap linkers.
6606 - Refactor the DictCmdGenerator class to be a Selector subclass.
6608 - Allow the DefaultEnvironment() function to take arguments and pass
6609 them to instantiation of the default construction environment.
6611 - Update the Debian package so it uses Python 2.2 and more closely
6612 resembles the currently official Debian packaging info.
6616 - When the yacc -d flag is used, take the .h file base name from the
6617 target .c file, not the source (matching what yacc does).
6621 RELEASE 0.91 - Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:00:44 -0500
6625 - Support specifying a list of tools when calling Environment.Copy().
6627 - Give a Value Nodes a timestamp of the system time when they're
6628 created, so they'll work when using timestamp-based signatures.
6630 - Add a DefaultEnvironment() function that only creates a default
6631 environment on-demand (for fetching source files, e.g.).
6633 - Portability fix for test/M4.py.
6637 - Tighten up the scons -H help output.
6639 - When the input yacc file ends in .yy and the -d flag is specified,
6640 recognize that a .hpp file (not a .h file) will be created.
6642 - Make builder prefixes work correctly when deducing a target
6643 from a source file name in another directory.
6645 - Documentation fixes: typo in the man page; explain up-front about
6646 not propagating the external environment.
6648 - Use "cvs co -d" instead of "cvs co -p >" when checking out something
6649 from CVS with a specified module name. This avoids zero-length
6650 files when there is a checkout error.
6652 - Add an "sconsign" script to print the contents of .sconsign files.
6654 - Speed up maintaining the various lists of Node children by using
6655 dictionaries to avoid "x in list" searches.
6657 - Cache the computed list of Node children minus those being Ignored
6658 so it's only calculated once.
6660 - Fix use of the --cache-show option when building a Program()
6661 (or using any other arbitrary action) by making sure all Action
6662 instances have strfunction() methods.
6664 - Allow the source of Command() to be a directory.
6666 - Better error handling of things like raw TypeErrors in SConscripts.
6668 - When installing using "setup.py install --prefix=", suppress the
6669 distutils warning message about adding the (incorrect) library
6670 directory to your search path.
6672 - Correct the spelling of the "validater" option to "validator."
6673 Add a DeprecatedWarning when the old spelling is used.
6675 - Allow a Builder's emitter to be a dictionary that maps source file
6676 suffixes to emitter functions, using the suffix of the first file
6677 in the source list to pick the right one.
6679 - Refactor the creation of the Program, *Object and *Library Builders
6680 so that they're moved out of SCons.Defaults and created on demand.
6682 - Don't split SConscript file names on white space.
6684 - Document the SConscript function's "dirs" and "name" keywords.
6686 - Remove the internal (and superfluous) SCons.Util.argmunge() function.
6688 - Add /TP to the default CXXFLAGS for msvc, so it can compile all
6689 of the suffixes we use as C++ files.
6691 - Allow the "prefix" and "suffix" attributes of a Builder to be
6692 callable objects that return generated strings, or dictionaries
6693 that map a source file suffix to the right prefix/suffix.
6695 - Support a MAXLINELINELENGTH construction variable on Win32 systems
6696 to control when a temporary file is used for long command lines.
6698 - Make how we build .rpm packages not depend on the installation
6699 locations from the distutils being used.
6701 - When deducing a target Node, create it directly from the first
6702 source Node, not by trying to create the right string to pass to
6705 - Add support for SWIG.
6707 From Bram Moolenaar:
6709 - Test portability fixes for FreeBSD.
6711 From Gary Oberbrunner:
6713 - Report the target being built in error messages when building
6714 multiple sources from different extensions, or when the target file
6715 extension can't be deduced, or when we don't have an action for a
6718 - Provide helpful error messages when the arguments to env.Install()
6721 - Fix the value returned by the Node.prevsiginfo() method to conform
6722 to a previous change when checking whether a node is current.
6724 - Supply a stack trace if the Taskmaster catches an exception.
6726 - When using a temporary file for a long link line on Win32 systems,
6727 (also) print the command line that is being executed through the
6730 - Initialize the LIB environment variable when using the Intel
6733 - Documentation fixes: better explain the AlwaysBuild() function.
6735 From Laurent Pelecq:
6737 - When the -debug=pdb option is specified, use pdb.Pdb().runcall() to
6738 call pdb directly, don't call Python recursively.
6742 - Add support for a platform-independent CPPDEFINES variable.
6744 From Christoph Wiedemann:
6746 - Have the g++ Tool actually use g++ in preference to c++.
6748 - Have the gcc Tool actually use gcc in preference to cc.
6750 - Add a gnutools.py test of the GNU tool chain.
6752 - Be smarter about linking: use $CC by default and $CXX only if we're
6753 linking with any C++ objects.
6755 - Avoid SCons hanging when a piped command has a lot of output to read.
6757 - Add QT support for preprocessing .ui files into .c files.
6761 RELEASE 0.90 - Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:24:52 -0500
6765 - Fix the _concat() documentation, and add a test for it.
6767 - Portability fixes for non-GNU versions of lex and yacc.
6771 - Fix handling of library prefixes when the subdirectory matches
6774 From Timothee Bessett:
6776 - Add an M4 Builder.
6780 - Use '.lnk' as the suffix on the temporary file for linking long
6781 command lines (necessary for the Phar Lap linkloc linker).
6783 - Save non-string Options values as their actual type.
6785 - Save Options string values that contain a single quote correctly.
6787 - Save any Options values that are changed from the default
6788 Environment values, not just ones changed on the command line or in
6791 - Make closing the Options file descriptor exception-safe.
6795 - SCons now enforces (with an error) that construction variables
6796 must have the same form as valid Python identifiers.
6798 - Fix man page bugs: remove duplicate AddPostAction() description;
6799 document no_import_lib; mention that CPPFLAGS does not contain
6800 $_CPPINCFLAGS; mention that F77FLAGS does not contain $_F77INCFLAGS;
6801 mention that LINKFLAGS and SHLINKFLAGS contains neither $_LIBFLAGS
6804 - Eliminate a dependency on the distutils.fancy_getopt module by
6805 copying and pasting its wrap_text() function directly.
6807 - Make the Script.Options() subclass match the underlying base class
6810 - When reporting a target is up to date, quote the target like make
6811 (backquote-quote) instead of with double quotes.
6813 - Fix handling of ../* targets when using -U, -D or -u.
6817 - Don't update the .sconsign files when run with -n.
6819 From Gary Oberbrunner:
6821 - Add support for the Intel C Compiler (icl.exe).
6829 - Fix use of SConf in paths with white space in them.
6831 - Add CheckFunc and CheckType functionality to SConf.
6833 - Fix use of SConf with Builders that return a list of nodes.
6835 From David Snopek and Christoph Wiedemann
6837 - Fix use of the SConf subsystem with SConscriptChdir().
6841 - Check for the existence of MS Visual Studio on disk before using it,
6842 to avoid getting fooled by leftover junk in the registry.
6844 - Add support for MSVC++ .NET.
6846 - Add support for MS Visual Studio project files (DSP, DSW,
6847 SLN and VCPROJ files).
6849 From Christoph Wiedemann
6851 - SConf now works correctly when the -n and -q options are used.
6855 RELEASE 0.14 - Wed, 21 May 2003 05:16:32 -0500
6859 - Use .dll (not .so) for shared libraries on Cygwin; use -fPIC
6860 when compiling them.
6862 - Use 'rm' to remove files under Cygwin.
6864 - Add a PLATFORM variable to construction environments.
6866 - Remove the "platform" argument from tool specifications.
6868 - Propogate PYTHONPATH when running the regression tests so distutils
6869 can be found in non-standard locations.
6871 - Using MSVC long command-line linking when running Cygwin.
6873 - Portability fixes for a lot of tests.
6875 - Add a Value Node class for dependencies on in-core Python values.
6877 From Allen Bierbaum:
6879 - Pass an Environment to the Options validator method, and
6880 add an Options.Save() method.
6882 From Steve Christensen:
6884 - Add an optional sort function argument to the GenerateHelpText()
6887 - Evaluate the "varlist" variables when computing the signature of a
6892 - Parse the source .java files for class names (including inner class
6893 names) to figure out the target .class files that will be created.
6895 - Make Java support work with Repositories and SConscriptChdir(0).
6897 - Pass Nodes, not strings, to Builder emitter functions.
6899 - Refactor command-line interpolation and signature calculation
6900 so we can use real Node attributes.
6904 - Add Java support (javac, javah, jar and rmic).
6906 - Propagate the external SYSTEMROOT environment variable into ENV on
6907 Win32 systems, so external commands that use sockets will work.
6909 - Add a .posix attribute to PathList expansions.
6911 - Check out CVS source files using POSIX path names (forward slashes
6912 as separators) even on Win32.
6914 - Add Node.clear() and Node.FS.Entry.clear() methods to wipe out a
6915 Node's state, allowing it to be re-evaluated by continuous
6916 integration build interfaces.
6918 - Change the name of the Set{Build,Content}SignatureType() functions
6919 to {Target,Source}Signatures(). Deprecate the old names but support
6920 them for backwards compatibility.
6922 - Add internal SCons.Node.FS.{Dir,File}.Entry() methods.
6924 - Interpolate the null string if an out-of-range subscript is used
6925 for a construction variable.
6927 - Fix the internal Link function so that it properly links or copies
6928 files in subsidiary BuildDir directories.
6930 - Refactor the internal representation of a single execution instance
6931 of an action to eliminate redundant signature calculations.
6933 - Eliminate redundant signature calculations for Nodes.
6935 - Optimize out calling hasattr() before accessing attributes.
6937 - Say "Cleaning targets" (not "Building...") when the -c option is
6942 - Quote the "Entering directory" message like Make.
6944 From Stefan Reichor:
6946 - Add support for using Ghostscript to convert Postscript to PDF files.
6950 - Add a standalone "Alias" function (separate from an Environment).
6952 - Make Export() work for local variables.
6954 - Support passing a dictionary to Export().
6956 - Support Import('*') to import everything that's been Export()ed.
6958 - Fix an undefined exitvalmap on Win32 systems.
6960 - Support new SetOption() and GetOption() functions for setting
6961 various command-line options from with an SConscript file.
6963 - Deprecate the old SetJobs() and GetJobs() functions in favor of
6964 using the new generic {Set,Get}Option() functions.
6966 - Fix a number of tests that searched for a Fortran compiler using the
6967 external PATH instead of what SCons would use.
6969 - Fix the interaction of SideEffect() and BuildDir() so that (for
6970 example) PDB files get put correctly in a BuildDir().
6974 - Contribute the "Autoscons" code for Autoconf-like checking for
6975 the existence of libraries, header files and the like.
6977 - Have the Tool() function add the tool name to the $TOOLS
6978 construction variable.
6982 - Support the C preprocessor #import statement.
6984 - Allow the SharedLibrary() Builder on Win32 systems to be able to
6985 register a newly-built dll using regsvr32.
6987 - Add a Builder for Windows type library (.tlb) files from IDL files.
6989 - Add an IDL scanner.
6991 - Refactor the Fortran, C and IDL scanners to share common logic.
6993 - Add .srcpath and .srcdir attributes to $TARGET and $SOURCE.
6995 From Christoph Wiedemann:
6997 - Integrate David Snopek's "Autoscons" code as the new SConf
6998 configuration subsystem, including caching of values between
6999 runs (using normal SCons dependency mechanisms), tests, and
7004 RELEASE 0.13 - Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:22:00 -0600
7008 - Fix a bug when BuildDir(duplicate=0) is used and SConscript
7009 files are called from within other SConscript files.
7011 - Support (older) versions of Perforce which don't set the Windows
7016 RELEASE 0.12 - Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:52:09 -0600
7020 - Added support for the Perforce source code management system.
7022 - Fix str(Node.FS) so that it returns a path relative to the calling
7023 SConscript file's directory, not the top-level directory.
7025 - Added support for a separate src_dir argument to SConscript()
7026 that allows explicit specification of where the source files
7027 for an SConscript file can be found.
7029 - Support more easily re-usable flavors of command generators by
7030 calling callable variables when strings are expanded.
7034 - Added an INSTALL construction variable that can be set to a function
7035 to control how the Install() and InstallAs() Builders install files.
7036 The default INSTALL function now copies, not links, files.
7038 - Remove deprecated features: the "name" argument to Builder objects,
7039 and the Environment.Update() method.
7041 - Add an Environment.SourceCode() method to support fetching files
7042 from source code systems. Add factory methods that create Builders
7043 to support BitKeeper, CVS, RCS, and SCCS. Add support for fetching
7044 files from RCS or SCCS transparently (like GNU Make).
7046 - Make the internal to_String() function more efficient.
7048 - Make the error message the same as other build errors when there's a
7049 problem unlinking a target file in preparation for it being built.
7051 - Make TARGET, TARGETS, SOURCE and SOURCES reserved variable names and
7052 warn if the user tries to set them in a construction environment.
7054 - Add support for Tar and Zip files.
7056 - Better documentation of the different ways to export variables to a
7057 subsidiary SConscript file. Fix documentation bugs in a tools
7058 example, places that still assumed SCons split strings on white
7061 - Support fetching arbitrary files from the TARGETS or SOURCES lists
7062 (e.g. ${SOURCES[2]}) when calculating the build signature of a
7065 - Don't silently swallow exceptions thrown by Scanners (or other
7066 exceptions while finding a node's dependent children).
7068 - Push files to CacheDir() before calling the superclass built()
7069 method (which may clear the build signature as part of clearing
7070 cached implicit dependencies, if the file has a source scanner).
7071 (Bug reported by Jeff Petkau.)
7073 - Raise an internal error if we attempt to push a file to CacheDir()
7074 with a build signature of None.
7076 - Add an explicit Exit() function for terminating early.
7078 - Change the documentation to correctly describe that the -f option
7079 doesn't change to the directory in which the specified file lives.
7081 - Support changing directories locally with SConscript directory
7082 path names relative to any SConstruct file specified with -f.
7083 This allows you to build in another directory by simply changing
7084 there and pointing at the SConstruct file in another directory.
7086 - Change the default SConscriptChdir() behavior to change to the
7087 SConscript directory while it's being read.
7089 - Fix an exception thrown when the -U option was used with no
7090 Default() target specified.
7092 - Fix -u so that it builds things in corresponding build directories
7093 when used in a source directory.
7097 - Add SharedObject() support to the masm tool.
7099 - Fix WhereIs() to return normalized paths.
7103 - Don't copy a built file to a CacheDir() if it's already there.
7105 - Avoid partial copies of built files in a CacheDir() by copying
7106 to a temporary file and renaming.
7110 - Fix incorrect dependency-cycle errors when an Aliased source doesn't
7115 RELEASE 0.11 - Tue, 11 Feb 2003 05:24:33 -0600
7119 - Add support for IRIX and the SGI MIPSPro tool chain.
7121 - Support using the MSVC tool chain when running Cygwin Python.
7125 - Avoid losing signal bits in the exit status from a command,
7126 helping terminate builds on interrupt (CTRL+C).
7130 - Added new AddPreAction() and AddPostAction() functions that support
7131 taking additional actions before or after building specific targets.
7133 - Add support for the PharLap ETS tool chain.
7137 - Allow Python function Actions to specify a list of construction
7138 variables that should be included in the Action's signature.
7140 - Allow libraries in the LIBS variable to explicitly include the prefix
7141 and suffix, even when using the GNU linker.
7142 (Bug reported by Neal Becker.)
7144 - Use DOS-standard CR-LF line endings in the scons.bat file.
7145 (Bug reported by Gary Ruben.)
7147 - Doc changes: Eliminate description of deprecated "name" keyword
7148 argument from Builder definition (reported by Gary Ruben).
7150 - Support using env.Append() on BUILDERS (and other dictionaries).
7151 (Bug reported by Bj=F6rn Bylander.)
7153 - Setting the BUILDERS construction variable now properly clears
7154 the previous Builder attributes from the construction Environment.
7155 (Bug reported by Bj=F6rn Bylander.)
7157 - Fix adding a prefix to a file when the target isn't specified.
7158 (Bug reported by Esa Ilari Vuokko.)
7160 - Clean up error messages from problems duplicating into read-only
7161 BuildDir directories or into read-only files.
7163 - Add a CommandAction.strfunction() method, and add an "env" argument
7164 to the FunctionAction.strfunction() method, so that all Action
7165 objects have strfunction() methods, and the functions for building
7166 and returning a string both take the same arguments.
7168 - Add support for new CacheDir() functionality to share derived files
7169 between builds, with related options --cache-disable, --cache-force,
7172 - Change the default behavior when no targets are specified to build
7173 everything in the current directory and below (like Make). This
7174 can be disabled by specifying Default(None) in an SConscript.
7176 - Revamp SCons installation to fix a case-sensitive installation
7177 on Win32 systems, and to add SCons-specific --standard-lib,
7178 --standalone-lib, and --version-lib options for easier user
7179 control of where the libraries get installed.
7181 - Fix the ability to directly import and use Platform and Tool modules
7182 that have been implicitly imported into an Environment().
7184 - Add support for allowing an embedding interface to annotate a node
7187 - Extend the SConscript() function to accept build_dir and duplicate
7188 keyword arguments that function like a BuildDir() call.
7192 - Fix the output of -c -n when directories are involved, so it
7197 - Use a different shared object suffix (.os) when using gcc so shared
7198 and static objects can exist side-by-side in the same directory.
7200 - Allow the same object files on Win32 to be linked into either
7201 shared or static libraries.
7203 - Cache implicit cache values when using --implicit-cache.
7207 RELEASE 0.10 - Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:11:46 -0600
7209 From Derrick 'dman' Hudson:
7211 - Support Repositories on other file systems by symlinking or
7212 copying files when hard linking won't work.
7216 - Remove Python bytecode (*.pyc) files from the scons-local packages.
7218 - Have FunctionActions print a description of what they're doing
7219 (a representation of the Python call).
7221 - Fix the Install() method so that, like other actions, it prints
7222 what would have happened when the -n option is used.
7224 - Don't create duplicate source files in a BuildDir when the -n
7227 - Refactor the Scanner interface to eliminate unnecessary Scanner
7228 calls and make it easier to write efficient scanners.
7230 - Added a "recursive" flag to Scanner creation that specifies the
7231 Scanner should be invoked recursively on dependency files returned
7234 - Significant performance improvement from using a more efficient
7235 check, throughout the code, for whether a Node has a Builder.
7237 - Fix specifying only the source file to MultiStepBuilders such as
7238 the Program Builder. (Bug reported by Dean Bair.)
7240 - Fix an exception when building from a file with the same basename as
7241 the subdirectory in which it lives. (Bug reported by Gerard Patel.)
7243 - Fix automatic deduction of a target file name when there are
7244 multiple source files specified; the target is now deduced from just
7245 the first source file in the list.
7247 - Documentation fixes: better initial explanation of SConscript files;
7248 fix a misformatted "table" in the StaticObject explanation.
7250 From Steven Knight and Steve Leblanc:
7252 - Fix the -c option so it will remove symlinks.
7256 - Add a Clean() method to support removing user-specified targets
7257 when using the -c option.
7259 - Add a development script for running SCons through PyChecker.
7261 - Clean up things found by PyChecker (mostly unnecessary imports).
7263 - Add a script to use HappyDoc to create HTML class documentation.
7267 - Make the Environment.get() method return None by default.
7271 - Add SetJobs() and GetJobs() methods to allow configuration of the
7272 number of default jobs (still overridden by -j).
7274 - Convert the .sconsign file format from ASCII to a pickled Python
7277 - Error message cleanups: Made consistent the format of error
7278 messages (now all start with "scons: ***") and warning messages (now
7279 all start with "scons: warning:"). Caught more cases with the "Do
7280 not know how to build" error message.
7282 - Added support for the MinGW tool chain.
7284 - Added a --debug=includes option.
7288 RELEASE 0.09 - Thu, 5 Dec 2002 04:48:25 -0600
7292 - Add a Prepend() method to Environments, to append values to
7293 the beginning of construction variables.
7297 - Add long command-line support to the "lib" Tool (Microsoft library
7302 - Allow $$ in a string to be passed through as $.
7304 - Support file names with odd characters in them.
7306 - Add support for construction variable substition on scanner
7307 directories (in CPPPATH, F77PATH, LIBPATH, etc.).
7309 From Charles Crain and Steven Knight:
7311 - Add Repository() functionality, including the -Y option.
7315 - Fix auto-deduction of target names so that deduced targets end
7316 up in the same subdirectory as the source.
7318 - Don't remove source files specified on the command line!
7320 - Suport the Intel Fortran Compiler (ifl.exe).
7322 - Supply an error message if there are no command-line or
7323 Default() targets specified.
7325 - Fix the ASPPCOM values for the GNU assembler.
7326 (Bug reported by Brett Polivka.)
7328 - Fix an exception thrown when a Default() directory was specified
7329 when using the -U option.
7331 - Issue a warning when -c can't remove a target.
7333 - Eliminate unnecessary Scanner calls by checking for the
7334 existence of a file before scanning it. (This adds a generic
7335 hook to check an arbitrary condition before scanning.)
7337 - Add explicit messages to tell when we're "Reading SConscript files
7338 ...," "done reading SConscript files," "Building targets," and
7339 "done building targets." Add a -Q option to supress these.
7341 - Add separate $SHOBJPREFIX and $SHOBJSUFFIX construction variables
7342 (by default, the same as $OBJPREFIX and $OBJSUFFIX).
7344 - Add Make-like error messages when asked to build a source file,
7345 and before trying to build a file that doesn't have all its source
7346 files (including when an invalid drive letter is used on WIN32).
7348 - Add an scons-local-{version} package (in both .tar.gz and .zip
7349 flavors) to help people who want to ship SCons as a stand-alone
7350 build tool in their software packages.
7352 - Prevent SCons from unlinking files in certain situations when
7353 the -n option is used.
7355 - Change the name of Tool/lib.py to Tool/mslib.py.
7357 From Steven Knight and Anthony Roach:
7359 - Man page: document the fact that Builder calls return Node objects.
7363 - Refactor option processing to use our own version of Greg Ward's
7364 Optik module, modified to run under Python 1.5.2.
7366 - Add a ParseConfig() command to modify an environment based on
7367 parsing output from a *-config command.
7371 - Fix interpretation of '#/../foo' on Win32 systems.
7375 - Fixed use of command lines with spaces in their arguments,
7376 and use of Nodes with spaces in their string representation.
7378 - Make access and modification times of files in a BuildDir match
7379 the source file, even when hard linking isn't available.
7381 - Make -U be case insensitive on Win32 systems.
7383 - Issue a warning and continue when finding a corrupt .sconsign file.
7385 - Fix using an alias as a dependency of a target so that if one of the
7386 alias' dependencies gets rebuilt, the resulting target will, too.
7388 - Fix differently ordered targets causing unnecessary rebuilds
7389 on case insensitive systems.
7391 - Use os.system() to execute external commands whenever the "env"
7392 utility is available, which is much faster than fork()/exec(),
7393 and fixes the -j option on several platforms.
7395 - Fix use of -j with multiple targets.
7397 - Add an Options() object for friendlier accomodation of command-
7400 - Add support for Microsoft VC++ precompiled header (.pch) files,
7401 debugger (.pdb) files, and resource (.rc) files.
7403 - Don't compute the $_CPPINCFLAGS, $_F77INCFLAGS, $_LIBFLAGS and
7404 $_LIBDIRFLAGS variables each time a command is executed, define
7405 them so they're computed only as needed. Add a new _concat
7406 function to the Environment that allows people to define their
7407 own similar variables.
7409 - Fix dependency scans when $LIBS is overridden.
7411 - Add EnsurePythonVersion() and EnsureSConsVersion() functions.
7413 - Fix the overly-verbose stack trace on ListBuilder build errors.
7415 - Add a SetContentSignatureType() function, allowing use of file
7416 timestamps instead of MD5 signatures.
7418 - Make -U and Default('source') fail gracefully.
7420 - Allow the File() and Dir() methods to take a path-name string as
7421 the starting directory, in addition to a Dir object.
7423 - Allow the command handler to be selected via the SPAWN, SHELL
7424 and ESCAPE construction variables.
7426 - Allow construction variables to be overridden when a Builder
7431 - Dynamically check for the existence of utilities with which to
7432 initialize Environments by default.
7436 RELEASE 0.08 - Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:08:51 -0500
7440 - Fixed a bug with relative CPPPATH dirs when using BuildDir().
7441 (Bug reported by Bob Summerwill.)
7443 - Added a warnings framework and a --warn option to enable or
7446 - Make the C scanner warn users if files referenced by #include
7447 directives cannot be found and --warn=dependency is specified.
7449 - The BUILDERS construction variable should now be a dictionary
7450 that maps builder names to actions. Existing uses of lists,
7451 and the Builder name= keyword argument, generate warnings
7452 about use of deprecated features.
7454 - Removed the "shared" keyword argument from the Object and
7457 - Added separated StaticObject, SharedObject, StaticLibrary and
7458 SharedLibrary builders. Made Object and Library synonyms for
7459 StaticObject and StaticLibrary, respectively.
7461 - Add LIBS and LIBPATH dependencies for shared libraries.
7463 - Removed support for the prefix, suffix and src_suffix arguments
7464 to Builder() to be callable functions.
7466 - Fix handling file names with multiple dots.
7468 - Allow a build directory to be outside of the SConstruct tree.
7470 - Add a FindFile() function that searches for a file node with a
7473 - Add $CPPFLAGS to the shared-object command lines for g++ and gcc.
7475 From Charles Crain and Steven Knight:
7477 - Add a "tools=" keyword argument to Environment instantiation,
7478 and a separate Tools() method, for more flexible specification
7479 of tool-specific environment changes.
7483 - Add a "platform=" keyword argument to Environment instantiation,
7484 and a separate Platform() method, for more flexible specification
7485 of platform-specific environment changes.
7487 - Updated README instructions and setup.py code to catch an
7488 installation failure from not having distutils installed.
7490 - Add descriptions to the -H help text for -D, -u and -U so
7491 people can tell them apart.
7493 - Remove the old feature of automatically splitting strings
7494 of file names on white space.
7496 - Add a dependency Scanner for native Fortran "include" statements,
7497 using a new "F77PATH" construction variable.
7499 - Fix C #include scanning to detect file names with characters like
7502 - Add more specific version / build output to the -v option.
7504 - Add support for the GNU as, Microsoft masm, and nasm assemblers.
7506 - Allow the "target" argument to a Builder call to be omitted, in
7507 which case the target(s) are deduced from the source file(s) and the
7508 Builder's specified suffix.
7510 - Add a tar archive builder.
7512 - Add preliminary support for the OS/2 Platform, including the icc
7517 - Fix --implicit-cache if the scanner returns an empty list.
7521 - Add a "multi" keyword argument to Builder creation that specifies
7522 it's okay to call the builder multiple times for a target.
7524 - Set a "multi" on Aliases so multiple calls will append to an Alias.
7526 - Fix emitter functions' use of path names when using BuildDir or
7529 - Fix --implicit-cache causing redundant rebuilds when the header
7532 - Fix --implicit-cache when a file has no implicit dependencies and
7533 its source is generated.
7535 - Make the drive letters on Windows always be the same case, so that
7536 changes in the case of drive letters don't cause a rebuild.
7538 - Fall back to importing the SCons.TimeStamp module if the SCons.MD5
7539 module can't be imported.
7541 - Fix interrupt handling to guarantee that a single interrupt will
7542 halt SCons both when using -j and not.
7544 - Fix .sconsign signature storage so that output files of one build
7545 can be safely used as input files to another build.
7547 - Added a --debug=time option to print SCons execution times.
7549 - Print an error message if a file can't be unlinked before being
7550 built, rather than just silently terminating the build.
7552 - Add a SideEffect() method that can be used to tell the build
7553 engine that a given file is created as a side effect of building
7554 a target. A file can be specified as a side effect of more than
7555 one build comand, in which case the commands will not be executed
7558 - Significant performance gains from not using our own version of
7559 the inefficient stock os.path.splitext() method, caching source
7560 suffix computation, code cleanup in MultiStepBuilder.__call__(),
7561 and replicating some logic in scons_subst().
7563 - Add --implicit-deps-changed and --implicit-deps-unchanged options.
7565 - Add a GetLaunchDir() function.
7567 - Add a SetBuildSignatureType() function.
7571 - Add an Append() method to Environments, to append values to
7572 construction variables.
7574 - Change the name of Update() to Replace(). Keep Update() as a
7575 deprecated synonym, at least for now.
7577 From Terrel Shumway:
7579 - Use a $PYTHON construction variable, initialized to sys.executable,
7580 when using Python to build parts of the SCons packages.
7582 - Use sys.prefix, not sys.exec_prefix, to find pdb.py.
7586 RELEASE 0.07 - Thu, 2 May 2002 13:37:16 -0500
7590 - Changes to build SCons packages on IRIX (and other *NIces).
7592 - Don't create a directory Node when a file already exists there,
7595 - Add 'dirs' and 'names' keyword arguments to SConscript for
7596 easier specification of subsidiary SConscript files.
7600 - Internal cleanup of environment passing to function Actions.
7602 - Builders can now take arbitrary keyword arguments to create
7603 attributes to be passed to: command generator functions,
7604 FunctionAction functions, Builder emitter functions (below),
7605 and prefix/suffix generator functions (below).
7607 - Command generator functions can now return ANYTHING that can be
7608 converted into an Action (a function, a string, a CommandGenerator
7609 instance, even an ActionBase instance).
7611 - Actions now call get_contents() with the actual target and source
7612 nodes used for the build.
7614 - A new DictCmdGenerator class replaces CompositeBuilder to support
7615 more flexible Builder behavior internally.
7617 - Builders can now take an emitter= keyword argument. An emitter
7618 is a function that takes target, source, and env argument, then
7619 return a 2-tuple of (new sources, new targets). The emitter is
7620 called when the Builder is __call__'ed, allowing a user to modify
7621 source and target lists.
7623 - The prefix, suffix and src_suffix Builder arguments now take a
7624 callable as well a string. The callable is passed the Environment
7625 and any extra Builder keyword arguments and is expected to return
7626 the appropriate prefix or suffix.
7628 - CommandActions can now be a string, a list of command + argument
7629 strings, or a list of commands (strings or lists).
7631 - Added shared library support. The Object and Library Builders now
7632 take a "shared=1" keyword argument to specify that a shared object
7633 or shared library should be built. It is an error to try to build
7634 static objects into a shared library or vice versa.
7636 - Win32 support for .def files has been added. Added the Win32-specific
7637 construction variables $WIN32DEFPREFIX, $WIN32DEFSUFFIX,
7638 $WIN32DLLPREFIX and $WIN32IMPLIBPREFIX. When building a .dll,
7639 the new construction variable $WIN32_INSERT_DEF, controls whether
7640 the appropriately-named .def file is inserted into the target
7641 list (if not already present). A .lib file is always added to
7642 a Library build if not present in the list of targets.
7644 - ListBuilder now passes all targets to the action, not just the first.
7646 - Fix so that -c now deletes generated yacc .h files.
7648 - Builder actions and emitter functions can now be initialized, through
7649 construction variables, to things other than strings.
7651 - Make top-relative '#/dir' lookups work like '#dir'.
7653 - Fix for relative CPPPATH directories in subsidiary SConscript files
7656 - Add a for_signature argument to command generators, so that
7657 generators that need to can return distinct values for the
7658 command signature and for executing the command.
7662 - Create a better scons.bat file from a py2bat.py script on the Python
7663 mailing list two years ago (modeled after pl2bat.pl).
7667 - Fix so that -c -n does *not* remove the targets!
7669 - Man page: Add a hierarchical libraries + Program example.
7671 - Support long MSVC linker command lines through a builder action
7672 that writes to a temporary file and uses the magic MSVC "link @file"
7673 argument syntax if the line is longer than 2K characters.
7675 - Fix F77 command-line options on Win32 (use /Fo instead of -o).
7677 - Use the same action to build from .c (lower case) and .C (upper
7678 case) files on case-insensitive systems like Win32.
7680 - Support building a PDF file directly from a TeX or LaTeX file
7681 using pdftex or pdflatex.
7683 - Add a -x option to runtest.py to specify the script being tested.
7684 A -X option indicates it's an executable, not a script to feed
7685 to the Python interpreter.
7687 - Add a Split() function (identical to SCons.Util.argmunge()) for use
7688 in the next release, when Builders will no longer automatically split
7689 strings on white space.
7693 - Add the SConscriptChdir() method.
7697 - Fix --debug=tree when used with directory targets.
7699 - Significant internal restructuring of Scanners and Taskmaster.
7701 - Added new --debug=dtree option.
7703 - Fixes for --profile option.
7705 - Performance improvement in construction variable substitution.
7707 - Implemented caching of content signatures, plus added --max-drift
7708 option to control caching.
7710 - Implemented caching of dependency signatures, enabled by new
7711 --implicit-cache option.
7713 - Added abspath construction variable modifier.
7715 - Added $SOURCE variable as a synonym for $SOURCES[0].
7717 - Write out .sconsign files on error or interrupt so intermediate
7718 build results are saved.
7720 - Change the -U option to -D. Make a new -U that builds just the
7721 targets from the local SConscript file.
7723 - Fixed use of sys.path so Python modules can be imported from
7724 the SConscript directory.
7726 - Fix for using Aliases with the -u, -U and -D options.
7728 - Fix so that Nodes can be passed to SConscript files.
7732 - Changes for official Debian packaging.
7736 RELEASE 0.06 - Thu, 28 Mar 2002 01:24:29 -0600
7740 - Fix command generators to expand construction variables.
7742 - Make FunctionAction arguments be Nodes, not strings.
7744 From Stephen Kennedy:
7746 - Performance: Use a dictionary, not a list, for a Node's parents.
7750 - Add .zip files to the packages we build.
7752 - Man page: document LIBS, fix a typo, document ARGUMENTS.
7754 - Added RANLIB and RANLIBFLAGS construction variables. Only use them
7755 in ARCOM if there's a "ranlib" program on the system.
7757 - Add a configurable CFILESUFFIX for the Builder of .l and .y files
7760 - Add a CXXFile Builder that turns .ll and .yy files into .cc files
7761 (configurable via a CXXFILESUFFIX construction variable).
7763 - Use the POSIX-standard lex -t flag, not the GNU-specific -o flag.
7764 (Bug reported by Russell Christensen.)
7766 - Fixed an exception when CPPPATH or LIBPATH is a null string.
7767 (Bug reported by Richard Kiss.)
7769 - Add a --profile=FILE option to make profiling SCons easier.
7771 - Modify the new DVI builder to create .dvi files from LaTeX (.ltx
7774 - Add support for Aliases (phony targets).
7776 - Add a WhereIs() method for searching for path names to executables.
7778 - Add PDF and PostScript document builders.
7780 - Add support for compiling Fortran programs from a variety of
7781 suffixes (a la GNU Make): .f, .F, .for, .FOR, .fpp and .FPP
7783 - Support a CPPFLAGS variable on all default commands that use the
7788 - Add support for the -U option.
7790 - Allow CPPPATH, LIBPATH and LIBS to be specified as white-space
7793 - Add a document builder to create .dvi files from TeX (.tex) files.
7797 - Fix: Construction variables with values of 0 were incorrectly
7800 - Support env['VAR'] to fetch construction variable values.
7802 - Man page: document Precious().
7806 RELEASE 0.05 - Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:50:03 -0600
7810 - Set PROGSUFFIX to .exe under Cygwin.
7814 - Allow a library to specified as a command-line source file, not just
7815 in the LIBS construction variable.
7817 - Compensate for a bug in os.path.normpath() that returns '' for './'
7820 - More performance optimizations: cache #include lines from files,
7821 eliminate unnecessary calls.
7823 - If a prefix or suffix contains white space, treat the resulting
7824 concatenation as separate arguments.
7826 - Fix irregularities in the way we fetch DevStudio information from
7827 the Windows registry, and in our registry error handling.
7831 - Flush stdout after print so it intermixes correctly with stderr
7834 - Allow Scanners to return a list of strings, and document how to
7835 write your own Scanners.
7837 - Look up implicit (scanned) dependencies relative to the directory
7838 of file being scanned.
7840 - Make writing .sconsign files more robust by first trying to write
7841 to a temp file that gets renamed.
7843 - Create all of the directories for a list of targets before trying
7844 to build any of the targets.
7846 - WIN32 portability fixes in tests.
7848 - Allow the list of variables exported to an SConscript file to be
7851 - Document the overlooked LIBPATH construction variable.
7852 (Bug reported by Eicke Godehardt.)
7854 - Fix so that Ignore() ignores indirect, implicit dependencies
7855 (included files), not just direct dependencies.
7857 - Put the man page in the Debian distribution.
7859 - Run HTML docs through tidy to clean up the HTML (for Konqueror).
7861 - Add preliminary support for Unicode strings.
7863 - Efficiency: don't scan dependencies more than once during the
7866 - Fix the -c option so it doesn't stop removing targets if one doesn't
7868 (Bug reported by Paul Connell.)
7870 - Fix the --debug=pdb option when run on Windows NT.
7871 (Bug reported by Paul Connell.)
7873 - Add support for the -q option.
7877 - Add support for the -u option.
7879 - Add .cc and .hh file suffixes to the C Scanner.
7883 - Make the scons script return an error code on failures.
7885 - Add support for using code to generate a command to build a target.
7889 RELEASE 0.04 - Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:09:42 -0600
7893 - Significant performance improvements in the Node.FS and
7896 - Fix signatures of binary files on Win32 systems.
7898 - Allow LIBS and LIBPATH to be strings, not just arrays.
7900 - Print a traceback if a Python-function builder throws an exception.
7904 - Fix using a directory as a Default(), and allow Default() to
7905 support white space in file names for strings in arrays.
7907 - Man page updates: corrected some mistakes, documented various
7908 missing Environment methods, alphabetized the construction
7909 variables and other functions, defined begin and end macros for
7910 the example sections, regularized white space separation, fixed
7911 the use of Export() in the Multiple Variants example.
7913 - Function action fixes: None is now a successful return value.
7914 Exceptions are now reported. Document function actions.
7916 - Add 'Action' and 'Scanner' to the global keywords so SConscript
7917 files can use them too.
7919 - Removed the Wrapper class between Nodes and Walkers.
7921 - Add examples using Library, LIBS, and LIBPATH.
7923 - The C Scanner now always returns a sorted list of dependencies
7924 so order changes don't cause unnecessary rebuilds.
7926 - Strip $(-$) bracketed text from command lines. Use this to
7927 surround $_INCDIRS and $_LIBDIRS so we don't rebuild in response
7928 to changes to -I or -L options.
7930 - Add the Ignore() method to ignore dependencies.
7932 - Provide an error message when a nonexistent target is specified
7933 on the command line.
7935 - Remove targets before building them, and add an Environment
7936 Precious() method to override that.
7938 - Eliminate redundant calls to the same builder when the target is a
7939 list of targets: Add a ListBuilder class that wraps Builders to
7940 handle lists atomically. Extend the Task class to support building
7941 and updating multiple targets in a single Task. Simplify the
7942 interface between Task and Taskmaster.
7944 - Add a --debug=pdb option to re-run SCons under the Python debugger.
7946 - Only compute a build signature once for each node.
7948 - Changes to our sys.path[] manipulation to support installation into
7949 an arbitrary --prefix value.
7953 - Add var=value command-line arguments.
7957 RELEASE 0.03 - Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:09:30 -0600
7961 - Performance improvements in the Node.FS and Sig.Calculator classes.
7963 - Add the InstallAs() method.
7965 - Execute commands through an external interpreter (sh, cmd.exe, or
7966 command.com) to handle redirection metacharacters.
7968 - Allow the user to supply a command handler.
7972 - Search both /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib for scons directories by
7973 adding them both to sys.path, with whichever is in sys.prefix first.
7975 - Fix interpreting strings of multiple white-space separated file names
7976 as separate file names, allowing prefixes and suffixes to be appended
7977 to each individually.
7979 - Refactor to move CompositeBuilder initialization logic from the
7980 factory wrapper to the __init__() method, and allow a Builder to
7981 have both an action and a src_builder (or array of them).
7983 - Refactor BuilderBase.__call__() to separate Node creation/lookup
7984 from initialization of the Node's builder information.
7986 - Add a CFile Builder object that supports turning lex (.l) and
7987 yacc (.y) files into .c files.
7989 - Document: variable interpretation attributes; how to propogate
7990 the user's environment variables to executed commands; how to
7991 build variants in multiple BuildDirs.
7993 - Collect String, Dict, and List type-checking in common utility
7994 routines so we can accept User{String,Dict,List}s all over.
7996 - Put the Action factory and classes into their own module.
7998 - Use one CPlusPlusAction in the Object Builder's action dictionary,
7999 instead of letting it create multiple identical instances.
8001 - Document the Install() and InstallAs() methods.
8005 - Require that a Builder be given a name argument, supplying a
8006 useful error message when it isn't.
8010 - Add a "duplicate" keyword argument to BuildDir() that can be set
8011 to prevent linking/copying source files into build directories.
8013 - Add a "--debug=tree" option to print an ASCII dependency tree.
8015 - Fetch the location of the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler(s) from
8016 the Registry, instead of hard-coding the location.
8018 - Made Scanner objects take Nodes, not path names.
8020 - Have the C Scanner cache the #include file names instead of
8021 (re-)scanning the file each time it's called.
8023 - Created a separate class for parent "nodes" of file system roots,
8024 eliminating the need for separate is-parent-null checks everywhere.
8026 - Removed defined __hash__() and __cmp() methods from FS.Entry, in
8027 favor of Python's more efficient built-in identity comparisons.
8031 RELEASE 0.02 - Sun, 23 Dec 2001 19:05:09 -0600
8035 - Added the Install(), BuildDir(), and Export() methods.
8037 - Fix the -C option by delaying setting the top of the FS tree.
8039 - Avoid putting the directory path on the libraries in the LIBS
8040 construction variable.
8042 - Added a GetBuildPath() method to return the full path to the
8043 Node for a specified string.
8045 - Fixed variable substitution in CPPPATH and LIBPATH.
8049 - Fixed the version comment in the scons.bat (the UNIX geek used
8052 - Fix to setup.py so it doesn't require a sys.argv[1] argument.
8054 - Provide make-like warning message for "command not found" and
8057 - Added an EXAMPLES section to the man page.
8059 - Make Default() targets properly relative to their SConscript
8060 file's subdirectory.
8064 - Documented CXXFLAGS, CXXCOM, and CPPPATH.
8066 - Fixed SCONS_LIB_DIR to work as documented.
8068 - Made Default() accept Nodes as arguments.
8070 - Changed Export() to make it easier to use.
8072 - Added the Import() and Return() methods.
8076 RELEASE 0.01 - Thu Dec 13 19:25:23 CST 2001
8078 A brief overview of important functionality available in release 0.01:
8080 - C and C++ compilation on POSIX and Windows NT.
8082 - Automatic scanning of C/C++ source files for #include dependencies.
8084 - Support for building libraries; setting construction variables
8085 allows creation of shared libraries.
8087 - Library and C preprocessor search paths.
8089 - File changes detected using MD5 signatures.
8091 - User-definable Builder objects for building files.
8093 - User-definable Scanner objects for scanning for dependencies.
8095 - Parallel build (-j) support.
8097 - Dependency cycles detected.
8099 - Linux packages available in RPM and Debian format.
8101 - Windows installer available.