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diff --git a/src/boost/tools/build/notes/changes.txt b/src/boost/tools/build/notes/changes.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bb98661f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/boost/tools/build/notes/changes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,317 @@ +Copyright 2004-2007 Vladimir Prus +Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. +(See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) + +Milestone 13 (in development) + +Changes in this release: + +The following bugs were fixed: + + - gcc support did not work on HP-UX systems + +Milestone 12 (Oct 1, 2007) + +Changes in this release: + + - The Pathscale, PGI and mipspro compilers are now supported. + - Support for autoconfiguration of toolset based on command-line + toolset=xxxx request, and for default toolset + configuration as a fallback. + - Support for precompiled headers for gcc toolset, + and improvements for msvc. + - Mechanism for removing inherited requirements. + - The 'make' rule support specifying usage-requirements. + - New 'project.extension' rule for declaring standalone + projects. + - New 'conditional' convenience rule. + - New 'glob-tree' rule. + - The 'glob' rule accepts patterns to exclude. + - Inline targets are now marked explicit automatically. + - Toolsets can now implicitly add requirements to + all targets. + - New 'generate' rule. + - The executables produced by the 'run' rule are automatically + removed after run. + - The gcc toolset uses the version obtained by running + the compiler, if no explicit one is provided. + - The sun toolset now supports the 'address-model' feature, + and uses -KPIC for shared libraries. + - Free features on command line affect all targets, not + just 'directly requested' ones. + + +Documentation changes: + + - Installation instructions for Linux distributors. + - Configuration options for all supported C++ compilers + are now documented. + +The following bugs were fixed: + + - The 'cflags' and 'linkflags' now work on Darwin.o + - The intel toolset now works on Windows. + - Fix library search options for CodeWarriour toolset. + - The <install-source-root> could cause duplicate + mkdir commands. + - Numerious fixes in Boost autolink support + - Numerious fixes in Boost.Python support. + - Indirect properties not evaluated in usage requirements. + - Generator that returns a property set but not target is + considered successful. + - On Darwin, when several compiler versions + are configured, -fcoalesce-templates is applied only to + versions that need it. + + +Milestone 11 (Jule 20, 2006) + +Changes in this release: + + - New C++ compilers: IBM xlf, HP aCC, HP CXX, Intel fortran compiler. + - New tools: Qt4 support, MS message compiler and IDL compiler. + - New main targets: 'notfile' and 'cast'. + + - Core changes: + + - Only one file required at top level of a project, named Jamroot. + - Jamfiles can now contain project-specific help messages. + - "Indirect conditional requirements" introduced + (http://tinyurl.com/mn3jp) + - Strip suffix in main target names when computing names of generated + files (URL) + - The 'source-location' project attribute can contain + several directories. + - Usage requirements are propagated not only direct dependents, + but to indirect dependents. + + - Command line option changes (see http://tinyurl.com/zbycz) + - New option --build-dir + - The --clean option cleans only target below the current directory, + not globally. + - New --clean-all option was added. + - New option --debug-building + - Running "bjam some_directory" works even if there's no Jamfile + in the current directory. + + - Toolset improvements: + - Assembling support with gcc, borland and msvc. + - Support amd64/ia64 cross-compiling with msvc. + - Improved, registry-based autodetection for msvc. + - Serialize execution of gcc.link actions + - Precompiled headers supported on MSVC + (Need documentation) + + - New features <warnings> and <warnings-as-errors> + - The 'glob' rule accepts wildcards in directory names. + - The 'stage' rule was renamed to 'install' + (the old name still available for compatibility) + - The <tag> feature can accept user-defined function as value + (URL) + - The 'install' rule can install a directory hierarchy preserving relative + paths. + - The 'install' rule no longer allows to change library + name during install. + - The Jamfile referred via 'use-project' may declare project id different + from the one in 'use-project'. + - The 'using' rule now searches the directory of containing Jamfile. + + +The following bugs were fixed: + + - The <library> feature was ignored for static linking + - Fix #include scanning for C files. + - Child projects were sometimes loaded before parent projects. + - Fix project references with absolute paths on Windows. + - The <dependency> feature was ignored for 'install' targets. + - A generator having the same type in sources and targets was causing hang. + - Use 'icpc' command for Intel, fixing errors with 8.1 and higher. + - Generation of PS files with the FOP tool really produces .PS files. + - No dependency scanning was done for C files. + - The 'constant' and 'path-constant' rules did not accept multi-element + value. + - Don't pass -fcoalesce-templates to gcc on OSX 10.4 + - Fix static lib suffix on OSX. + - Fix rpath setting on Intel/Linux. + - The 'install' rule don't unnecessary scans #includes in installed + headers. + + +Developer visible changes: + + - Ability to customize type's prefix depending on build properties. + - Generator's 'run' method can return usage-requirements. + - Main target rule is automatically declared for each new target type. + - 'Link incompatible' feature attribute was removed + - Generators no longer bypass unhandled sources, they just ignore them. + - If there are several applicable generators, immediately report ambiguity. + Provide a way to explicitly resolve conflicts between generators. + - The 'flags' rule can match absence of feature. + - Great improvement in response files handling + - The 'toolset.flags' rules allows value-less feature to signify + absence of this feature (fix hack-hack). + - Automatically declare main target rule for each declared target type. + - When inheriting types, inherit generators for the base type, as opposed + to using various hacks to invoke base generators when needed. + - Improve diagnostic for "duplicate actual target" and generator ambiguity. + + +Milestone 10 (October 29, 2004) + +Changes in this release: + + Many toolsets were added: Intel, Metrowerks, Comeau, aCC, vacpp. + Documentation was converted to BoostBook and improved. + Performance was improved. + + - Toolsets initialization syntax is much more uniform. Compiler and linker + flags can now be specified. + - The algorithm for computing build properties was improved. Conditional + requirements can be chained, and a number of bugs were fixed. + - Specific order of properties can be specified. + - The main target rules can be called from everywhere, not necessary from + Jamfile. + - Check for "unused sources" removed. + - The <library> feature affects only linking now. + - The <file> feature now works only for libraries. + - Simpler syntax for "searched" libraries was added. + - New <dependency> feature. + + + Unix: + The right order of static libraries on Unix is automatically + computed. + The <hardcode-dll-paths> feature is the default. + gcc: + The -fPIC option is passed when creating shared libraries. + Problems with distcc were solved. + Sun: + It's now possible to use the sun linker (as opposed to gnu), and + to compile C files. + Darwin: + Shared libraries are now supported. + MSVC: Before resource files compilation, the setup script is invoked. + Options deprecated in 8.0 are not longer used. + + +The following bugs were fixed: + + - The <unit-test> rule did not handle the <library> property (!!!!!!) + - Don't add "bin" to the build directory explicitly specified by the user. + - Allow <include-type> to select staged targets, + even with <traverse-dependencies>off. + - Includes for the form '# include <whatever>" did not work. + - (Qt) Add paths to all dependent libs to uic command + line, which helps if the UI files uses plugins. + - Using <toolset-msvc:version>xxx in requirements was broken. + - Error message printed when target can be found is much more clear. + - Inline targets in sources of 'stage' did not work. + - Don't produce 'independent target' warnings on Windows + - (gcc) The <link-runtime>static did not work. + - (gcc) Suppress warnings from the 'ar' tool on some systems. + - (gcc) Don't try to set soname on NT. + +Developer visible changes: + + - Generator priorities are gone, explicit overrides are used. + - 'Active' features were removed + - Support for VMS paths was added. + +Thanks to Christopher Currie, Pedro Ferreira, Philipp Frauenfelder, +Andre Hentz, Jurgen Hunold, Toon Knapen, Johan Nilsson, Alexey Pakhunov, +Brock Peabody, Michael Stevens and Zbynek Winkler who contributed +code to this release. + + +Milestone 9.1 (Nov 6, 2003) + +The following bugs were fixed: + + - The 'unit-test' rule used to ignore <library> properties. + - The gcc toolset used to ignore <threading> property. + +Milestone 9 (Nov 6, 2003) + +Changes in this release + + - Putting library in sources of other library now works even for static + linking, which makes expressing library->library dependency much + simpler. + - Performance was considerably improved. + - Regression testing framework now works on windows. + - The "alias" rule can have usage requirements and passes on usage + requirements of sources. + - The "stage" rule can traverse dependencies. + - Support for "def files" was implemented. + - Targets paths are now shorter. + - Darwin toolset was improved. + +The following bugs were fixed: + + - It was not possible to specify empty suffix for a target type derived + from other type. + - The stage rules used to generate incorrect suffix in some cases. + - It was possible to load Jamfile twice. + - The 'use-project' rule was broken when referring to a child project. + - Use of composite properties in requirements did not work. + +Developer visible changes: + + - New CALC builtin, which considerable improves performance. + - Source layout was reorganized. + - Handling of response file was simplified. + +Thanks to Pedro Ferreira, Kirill Lapshin, Andre Hentz, Paul Lin, +Jurgen Hunold, Christopher Currie, and Brock Peabody, who contributed to +this release. + +Milestone 8 (Oct 15, 2003) + +Changes in this release: + + - A regression testing framework was implemented. + - New <implicit-dependency> feature was added for better handling + of dependencies to generated headers. + - The link-compatibility checks not longer cause projects to be skipped, + and issue warning, not error, for main targets. + - Algorithm for selecting main target alternative was improved. + - The <dependency> feature was renamed to <use>. + - Project root constants were made available in project root itself. + +The following bugs were fixed: + + - failure to recognize shared libraries with version as such + - the 'path-constant' rule was mishandling absolute paths on Windows. + + +Milestone 7 (Sep 11, 2003) + +Changes in this release: + + - Performance was improved. + - Support for Sun and Darwin toolsets was added. + - <tag> feature, which changes the name of target depending of build + variant, was implemented. + - Old-style targets-ids are no longer supported. + - New 'glob' rule allows to easily perform wildcard matching in Jamfile. + - Improve bison/flex support to understand C++. + +The following bugs were fixed: + + - bogus error on use of project default-build attribute with several + main target alternatives. + - broken toolset inheritance + - hard error after skipping a target due to incompatible requirements + - incorrect behaviour of a generator when producing several targets of + the same type + - errors on use of the 'project-root' rule in Jamfile context + - inability to require specific compiler version for a main target. + - incorrect behaviour of "bjam msvc" when msvc is configured with explicit + version. + +Thanks to Christopher Currie, Pedro Ferreira and Michael Stevens, who +contributed to this release. + + + + |