A new SCons release, 2.3.1, is now available on the SCons download page:
http://www.scons.org/download.php
This release adds several new features and fixes many issues, including a
serious regression in linking (failure to re-link if linker options are
changed). It also should use less memory for large builds.
Here is a summary of the changes since 2.3.0:
NEW FUNCTIONALITY
- Add Pseudo command to mark targets which should not exist after
they are built.
- Add support for a readonly cache (--cache-readonly)
- Added cyglink linker that uses Cygwin naming conventions for
shared libraries and automatically generates import libraries.
- Added optional ZIPROOT to Zip tool.
DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY
- None
CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
- DocBook tool can now output EPUB format
- Allow multiple options to be specified with --debug=a,b,c
- Update bootstrap.py so it can be used from any dir, to run
SCons from a source (non-installed) dir.
- Added release_target_info() to File nodes, which helps to
reduce memory consumption in clean builds and update runs
of large projects.
- Print full stack on certain errors, for debugging.
- Improve documentation for Textfile builder.
FIXES
- Stop leaking file handles to subprocesses by switching to using
subprocess
always.
- Generally try harder to print out a message on build errors
- Added a switch to warn on missing targets
- Always print stats if requested
- Check for 8.3 filenames on cygwin as well as win32 to make variant_dir
work properly.
- Make sure SharedLibrary depends on all dependent libs (by depending on
SHLINKCOM)
- Fixed the setup of linker flags for a versioned SharedLibrary
under OpenBSD (#2916).
- Improve error if Visual Studio bat file not found.
- Allow Subst.Literal string objects to be compared with each other,
so they work better in AddUnique() and Remove().
- Fixed the handling of long options in the command-line
parsing (#2929).
- Fixed misspelled variable in intelc.py (#2928).
- VS2012 & VS2010: Resolve initialization issues by adding path to reg.exe
in shell used to run batch files.
- MSVC Support: fixed defaulting TARGET_ARCH to HOST_ARCH. It should be
None if not explicitly set.
- MSVC: Fixed issue where if more than one Architectures compilers are
detected, it would take the last one found, and not the first.
- Fixed spelling errors in MAN pages (#2897).
- Fixed description of ignore_case for EnumVariable in the
MAN page (#2774).
PACKAGING
- No changes
DEVELOPMENT
- Count statistics of instances are now collected only when
the --debug=count command-line option is used (#2922).
- Test harness: fail_test() can now print a message to help debugging.
- Require rpmbuild when building SCons package.
- Replaced old SGML-based documentation toolchain with a more modern
approach, that also requires less external dependencies (programs and
Python packages). Added a customized Docbook XSD for strict validation
of
all input XML files.
Enjoy!
-- The SCons Team
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