| 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) |
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| Milestone 13 (in development) |
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| Changes in this release: |
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| The following bugs were fixed: |
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| - gcc suport did not work on HP-UX systems |
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| Milestone 12 (Oct 1, 2007) |
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| Changes in this release: |
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| - 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. |
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| Documentation changes: |
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| - Installation instructions for Linux distributors. |
| - Configuration options for all supported C++ compilers |
| are now documented. |
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| The following bugs were fixed: |
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| - 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. |
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| Milestone 11 (Jule 20, 2006) |
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| Changes in this release: |
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| - 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'. |
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| - Core changes: |
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| - 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. |
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| - 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. |
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| - 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) |
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| - 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. |
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| The following bugs were fixed: |
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| - 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. |
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| Developer visible changes: |
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| - 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 absense of feature. |
| - Great improvement in response files handling |
| - The 'toolset.flags' rules allows value-less feature to signify |
| absense 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. |
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| Milestone 10 (October 29, 2004) |
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| Changes in this release: |
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| Many toolsets were added: Intel, Metrowerks, Comeau, aCC, vacpp. |
| Documentation was converted to BoostBook and improved. |
| Performance was improved. |
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| - 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. |
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| 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. |
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| The following bugs were fixed: |
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| - 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. |
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| Developer visible changes: |
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| - Generator priorities are gone, explicit overrides are used. |
| - 'Active' features were removed |
| - Support for VMS paths was added. |
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| 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. |
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| Milestone 9.1 (Nov 6, 2003) |
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| The following bugs were fixed: |
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| - The 'unit-test' rule used to ignore <library> properties. |
| - The gcc toolset used to ignore <threading> property. |
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| Milestone 9 (Nov 6, 2003) |
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| Changes in this release |
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| - 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. |
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| The following bugs were fixed: |
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| - 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. |
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| Developer visible changes: |
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| - New CALC builtin, which considerable improves performance. |
| - Source layout was reorganized. |
| - Handling of response file was simplified. |
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| Thanks to Pedro Ferreira, Kirill Lapshin, Andre Hentz, Paul Lin, |
| Jurgen Hunold, Christopher Currie, and Brock Peabody, who contributed to |
| this release. |
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| Milestone 8 (Oct 15, 2003) |
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| Changes in this release: |
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| - 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. |
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| The following bugs were fixed: |
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| - failure to recognize shared libraries with version as such |
| - the 'path-constant' rule was mishandling absolute paths on Windows. |
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| Milestone 7 (Sep 11, 2003) |
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| Changes in this release: |
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| - 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++. |
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| The following bugs were fixed: |
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| - 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. |
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| Thanks to Christopher Currie, Pedro Ferreira and Michael Stevens, who |
| contributed to this release. |
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