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| <p class="title"><b></b></p> |
| <dl> |
| <dt><span class="term">3.1.18</span></dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p> |
| After years of bjam developments.. This is going to be the last unbundled |
| release of the 3.1.x series. From this point forward bjam will only be |
| bundled as part of the larger Boost Build system. And hence will likely |
| change name at some point. As a side effect of this move people will |
| get more frequent release of bjam (or whatever it ends up being called). |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| </p> |
| <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> |
| <li class="listitem">New built-ins, MD5, SPLIT_BY_CHARACTERS, PRECIOUS, PAD, FILE_OPEN, and |
| UPDATE_NOW. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Ensure all file descriptors |
| are closed when executing actions complete on *nix. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel |
| B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Fix warnings, patch from Mateusz Loskot. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir |
| P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add KEEP_GOING var to programatically override the '-q' |
| option. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add more parameters, up to |
| 19 from 9, to rule invocations. Patch from Jonathan Biggar. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir |
| P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Print failed command output even if the normally quite |
| '-d0' option. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Build of bjam with |
| vc10, aka Visual Studio 2010. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">More |
| macros for detection of OSPLAT, patch from John W. Bito. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir |
| P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add PARALLELISM var to programatically override the '-j' |
| option. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Tweak doc building to allow |
| for PDF generation of docs. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>John M.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| </ul></div> |
| <p> |
| </p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><span class="term">3.1.17</span></dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p> |
| A year in the making this release has many stability improvements and |
| various performance improvements. And because of the efforts of Jurko |
| the code is considerably more readable! |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| </p> |
| <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> |
| <li class="listitem">Reflect the results of calling bjam from Python. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">For building on Windows: Rework how arguments are parsed and tested to |
| fix handling of quoted arguments, options arguments, and arguments with |
| "=". -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Try to work around at |
| least one compiler bug with GCC and variable aliasing that causes crashes |
| with hashing file cache entries. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add |
| -Wc,-fno-strict-aliasing for QCC/QNX to avoid the same aliasing crashes |
| as in the general GCC 4.x series (thanks to Niklas Angare for the fix). |
| -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">On Windows let the child bjam commands |
| inherit stdin, as some commands assume it's available. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene |
| R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">On Windows don't limit bjam output to ASCII as some tools |
| output characters in extended character sets. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Isolate running of bjam tests to individual bjam instances to prevent |
| possible spillover errors from one test affecting another test. Separate |
| the bjam used to run the tests vs. the bjam being tested. And add automatic |
| re-building of the bjam being tested. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Fix some possible overrun issues revealed by Fortify build. Thanks to |
| Steven Robbins for pointing out the issues. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Handle \n and \r escape sequences. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Minor edits to remove -Wall warnings. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Dynamically adjust pwd buffer query size to allow for when PATH_MAX is |
| default defined instead of being provided by the system C library. -- |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Minor perf improvement for bjam by replacing |
| hash function with faster version. Only 1% diff for Boost tree. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene |
| R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Updated Boost Jam's error location reporting when parsing |
| Jamfiles. Now it reports the correct error location information when |
| encountering an unexpected EOF. It now also reports where an invalid |
| lexical token being read started instead of finished which makes it much |
| easier to find errors like unclosed quotes or curly braces. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko |
| G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Removed the -xarch=generic architecture from build.jam |
| as this option is unknown so the Sun compilers on Linux. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel |
| B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Fixed a bug with T_FATE_ISTMP getting reported as T_FATE_ISTMP |
| & T_FATE_NEEDTMP at the same time due to a missing break in a switch |
| statement. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Fixed a Boost Jam bug causing |
| it to sometimes trigger actions depending on targets that have not been |
| built yet. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Added missing documentation |
| for Boost Jam's :T variable expansion modifier which converts all back-slashes |
| ('\') to forward slashed ('/'). -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Added |
| Boost Jam support for executing command lines longer than 2047 characters |
| (up to 8191) characters when running on Windows XP or later OS version. |
| -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Fixed a Boost Jam bug on Windows causing |
| its SHELL command not to work correctly with some commands containing |
| quotes. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Corrected a potential memory |
| leak in Boost Jam's builtin_shell() function that would appear should |
| Boost Jam ever start to release its allocated string objects. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko |
| G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Made all Boost Jam's ECHO commands automatically flush |
| the standard output to make that output more promptly displayed to the |
| user. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Made Boost Jam tests quote their |
| bjam executable name when calling it allowing those executables to contain |
| spaces in their name and/or path. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Change |
| execunix.c to always use fork() instead of vfork() on the Mac. This works |
| around known issues with bjam on PPC under Tiger and a problem reported |
| by Rene with bjam on x86 under Leopard. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Corrected a bug in Boost Jam's base Jambase script causing it to trim |
| the error message displayed when its boost-build rule gets called multiple |
| times. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">When importing from Python into |
| an module with empty string as name, import into root module. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir |
| P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Patch for the NORMALIZE_PATH builtin Boost Jam rule as |
| well as an appropriate update for the path.jam Boost Build module where |
| that rule was being used to implement path join and related operations. |
| -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Fixed a bug causing Boost Jam not to |
| handle target file names specified as both short and long file names |
| correctly. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Relaxed test, ignoring case |
| of drive letter. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Roland S.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Implemented a patch |
| contributed by Igor Nazarenko reimplementing the list_sort() function |
| to use a C qsort() function instead of a hand-crafted merge-sort algorithm. |
| Makes some list sortings (e.g. 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2, ...) extremely faster, |
| in turn significantly speeding up some project builds. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko |
| G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Fixed a bug with bjam not handling the '' root Windows |
| path correctly without its drive letter being specified. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko |
| G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Solved the problem with child process returning the value |
| 259 (Windows constant STILL_ACTIVE) causing bjam never to detect that |
| it exited and therefore keep running in an endless loop. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko |
| G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Solved the problem with bjam going into an active wait |
| state, hogging up processor resources, when waiting for one of its child |
| processes to terminate while not all of its available child process slots |
| are being used. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Solved a race condition |
| between bjam's output reading/child process termination detection and |
| the child process's output generation/termination which could have caused |
| bjam not to collect the terminated process's final output. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko |
| G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Change from vfork to fork for executing actions on Darwin |
| to improve stability. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Code reformatting |
| and cleanups. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Jurko G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Implement ISFILE built-in. |
| -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| </ul></div> |
| <p> |
| </p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><span class="term">3.1.16</span></dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p> |
| This is mostly a bug fix release. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| </p> |
| <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> |
| <li class="listitem">Work around some Windows CMD.EXE programs that will fail executing a |
| totally empty batch file. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add support |
| for detection and building with <code class="literal">vc9</code>. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>John |
| P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Plug memory leak when closing out actions. Thanks to Martin |
| Kortmann for finding this. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Various improvements |
| to <code class="literal">__TIMING_RULE__</code> and <code class="literal">__ACTION_RULE__</code> |
| target variable hooks. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Change <code class="literal">JAMDATE</code> |
| to use common ISO date format. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add test |
| for result status values of simple actions, i.e. empty actions. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene |
| R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Fix buffer overrun bug in expanding <code class="literal">@()</code> |
| subexpressions. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Check empty string invariants, |
| instead of assuming all strings are allocated. And reset strings when |
| they are freed. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add <code class="literal">OSPLAT=PARISC</code> |
| for HP-UX PA-RISC. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Boris G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Make quietly actions |
| really quiet by not printing the command output. The output for the quietly |
| actions is still available through <code class="literal">__ACTION_RULE__</code>. |
| -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Switch intel-win32 to use static multi |
| thread runtime since the single thread static runtime is no longer available. |
| -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">When setting <code class="literal">OSPLAT</code>, |
| check <code class="literal">__ia64</code> macro. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Boris G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Get the unix timing working correctly. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add <code class="literal">-fno-strict-aliasing</code> to compilation with gcc. |
| Which works around GCC-4.2 crash problems. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Boris G.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Increased support for Python integration. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir P.</em></span>, |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Daniel W.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Allow specifying options with quotes, |
| i.e. <code class="literal">--with-python=xyz</code>, to work around the CMD shell |
| using <code class="literal">=</code> as an argument separator. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene |
| R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add values of variables specified with -s to .EVNRION module, |
| so that we can override environment on command line. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir |
| P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Make NORMALIZE_PATH convert \ to /. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir |
| P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| </ul></div> |
| <p> |
| </p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><span class="term">3.1.15</span></dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p> |
| This release sees a variety of fixes for long standing Perforce/Jam problems. |
| Most of them relating to running actions in parallel with the -jN option. |
| The end result of the changes is that running parallel actions is now |
| reliably possible in Unix and Windows environments. Many thanks to Noel |
| for joining the effort, to implement and fix the Unix side of stuff. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| </p> |
| <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> |
| <li class="listitem">Add support for building bjam with pgi and pathscale toolsets. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel |
| B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Implement running action commands through pipes (-p option) |
| to fix jumbled output when using parallel execution with -j option. This |
| is implemented for Unix variants, and Windows (Win32/NT). -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene |
| R.</em></span>, <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add "sun" as alias |
| to Sun Workshop compiler tools. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Set MAXLINE |
| in jam.h to 23k bytes for AIX. The piecemeal archive action was broken |
| with the default MAXLINE of 102400. Because the AIX shell uses some of |
| the 24k default buffer size for its own use, I reduced it to 23k. -- |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Make use of output dir options of msvc to |
| not polute src dir with compiled files. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">A small fix, so -d+2 will always show the "real" commands being |
| executed instead of casually the name of a temporary batch file. -- |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Roland S.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add test to check 'bjam -n'. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene |
| R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add test to check 'bjam -d2'. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Bring back missing output of -n option. The -o option continues to be |
| broken as it has been for a long time now because of the @ file feature. |
| -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Update GC support to work with Boehm |
| GC 7.0. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Revert the BOOST_BUILD_PATH change, |
| since the directory passed to boost-build should be first in searched |
| paths, else project local build system will not be picked correctly. |
| The order had been changed to allow searching of alternate user-config.jam |
| files from boost build. This better should be done with --user-config= |
| switch or similar. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Roland S.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Initial support |
| for defining action body from Python. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Vladimir P.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Implement @() expansion during parse phase. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Define OSPLAT var unconditionally, and more generically, when possible. |
| -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Fix undeclared INT_MAX on some platforms, |
| i.e. Linux. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Modified execunix.c to add |
| support for terminating processes that consume too much cpu or that hang |
| and fail to consume cpu at all. This in support of the bjam -lx option. |
| -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add internal dependencies for multi-file |
| generating actions to indicate that the targets all only appear when |
| the first target appears. This fixes the long standing problem Perforce/Jam |
| has with multi-file actions and parallel execution (-jN). -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene |
| R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add test of -l limit option now that it's implemented on |
| windows and unix. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add test for no-op |
| @() expansion. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Handle invalid formats |
| of @() as doing a straight substitution instead of erroring out. -- |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Various fixes to compile on SGI/Irix. -- |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add output for when actions timeout with |
| -lN option. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Rene R.</em></span>, <span class="emphasis"><em>Noel B.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem">Add needed include (according to XOPEN) for definition of WIFEXITED and |
| WEXITSTATUS. -- <span class="emphasis"><em>Markus S.</em></span> |
| </li> |
| </ul></div> |
| <p> |
| </p> |
| </dd> |
| </dl> |
| </div> |
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