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author | Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com> | 2007-08-17 03:17:04 (GMT) |
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committer | Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com> | 2007-08-17 03:17:04 (GMT) |
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r2145 | stevenknight | 2007-07-17 09:15:12 -0500 (Tue, 17 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Don't put null strings (from variable expansion) in a path list.
(They get turned into the current directory on later expansion.)
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r2146 | stevenknight | 2007-07-17 10:47:39 -0500 (Tue, 17 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Add support for optional arguments on command-line long options
by specifying nargs='?'.
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r2149 | stevenknight | 2007-07-17 15:22:24 -0500 (Tue, 17 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Remove left-over Optik mentions.
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r2150 | stevenknight | 2007-07-17 15:39:34 -0500 (Tue, 17 Jul 2007) | 4 lines
Add a $SWIGPATH variable for finding SWIG dependencies, with
$SWIGINC{PREFIX,SUFFIX} for adding them to the command line.
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r2154 | stevenknight | 2007-07-18 20:05:31 -0500 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Fix variable misspellings in the doc added for $SWIGOUTPUT.
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r2155 | stevenknight | 2007-07-18 20:07:28 -0500 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Add the Python eggs info file to the RPM packaging build.
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r2156 | stevenknight | 2007-07-18 20:15:08 -0500 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Convert documentation from DocBook SGML to XML.
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r2158 | stevenknight | 2007-07-19 17:16:19 -0500 (Thu, 19 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Conditionally add the .egg-info the RPM file list only if the distutils
in the version of Python that rpmbuild will execute knows about them.
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r2161 | stevenknight | 2007-07-19 19:12:29 -0500 (Thu, 19 Jul 2007) | 5 lines
Capture a test case (contributed by Tilo Prutz) where instantiation of
a private class causes javac to generate an additional anonymous inner
class file. (No solution yet, but there's no sense throwing away the
preparatory work.)
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r2162 | stevenknight | 2007-07-20 11:29:56 -0500 (Fri, 20 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Support passing a list of .java files as source to the Java() builder.
(Leanid Nazdrynau)
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r2163 | garyo | 2007-07-20 12:00:35 -0500 (Fri, 20 Jul 2007) | 1 line
Fixed cut-n-paste error in Touch factory method doc in users guide.
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r2167 | stevenknight | 2007-07-21 22:59:40 -0500 (Sat, 21 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Don't execute the SWIGOUTDIR test if swig isn't installed.
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r2168 | stevenknight | 2007-07-21 23:14:17 -0500 (Sat, 21 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Fix the test's ability to run under a path name containing spaces.
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r2171 | stevenknight | 2007-07-24 15:54:41 -0500 (Tue, 24 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Handle white space in key file names in the packaging build.
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r2172 | stevenknight | 2007-07-24 21:41:15 -0500 (Tue, 24 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
More efficient copying of construction environments.
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r2173 | stevenknight | 2007-07-25 10:56:02 -0500 (Wed, 25 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Update the SCons build for Subversion and general clean-up.
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r2174 | stevenknight | 2007-07-25 11:35:16 -0500 (Wed, 25 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Suppress the [brackets] around a node in the --tree=prune output if
the node is a source.
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r2175 | stevenknight | 2007-07-25 12:52:18 -0500 (Wed, 25 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Commonize the skip_test() method and make its behavior configurable
via a TESTCOMMON_PASS_SKIPS environment variable.
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r2178 | stevenknight | 2007-07-25 21:43:47 -0500 (Wed, 25 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Add $JAVACLASSPATH and $JAVASOURCEPATH construction variables. (Leanid
Nazdrynau)
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r2182 | stevenknight | 2007-07-30 12:10:20 -0500 (Mon, 30 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Refactor Builder suffix-adjusting into its own method, so we can
(potentially) re-use it for Builders with attached source Builders.
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r2183 | stevenknight | 2007-07-30 14:51:53 -0500 (Mon, 30 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
More efficient source-builder suffix matching.
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r2184 | stevenknight | 2007-07-30 16:01:42 -0500 (Mon, 30 Jul 2007) | 4 lines
Encapsulate initialization of the default FS object by an accessor
function in SCons.Node.FS. (This also gets rid of an unnecessary
reference to SCons.Node.FS.default_fs in the LaTeX scanner.)
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r2193 | stevenknight | 2007-07-30 18:24:07 -0500 (Mon, 30 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Fix interpretation of source arguments that have no suffix when the
called Builder has both a src_suffix and a src_builder.
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r2194 | stevenknight | 2007-07-31 10:25:31 -0500 (Tue, 31 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Increase the number of tries for random output from three to ten.
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r2195 | stevenknight | 2007-07-31 10:52:28 -0500 (Tue, 31 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Skip the test gracefully if the zipfile module can't read the file it
just wrote (which is the case for Python 2.1 on 64-bit systems).
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r2196 | stevenknight | 2007-07-31 13:06:21 -0500 (Tue, 31 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Move the "import zipfile" so it doesn't fail on Python <= 2.0.
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r2197 | stevenknight | 2007-07-31 14:51:50 -0500 (Tue, 31 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Commonize initialization of the various Java builders so they can be
hooked up into a multi-stage Builder chain. (Leanid Nazdrynau)
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r2198 | stevenknight | 2007-07-31 16:15:18 -0500 (Tue, 31 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Fix use of ${TARGET.dir} and ${SOURCE.dir} expansions in $FORTRANMODDIR
$JARCHDIR, $JARFLAGS, $LEXFLAGS, $SWIGFLAGS, $SWIGOUTDIR and $YACCFLAGS.
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r2199 | stevenknight | 2007-07-31 16:25:48 -0500 (Tue, 31 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Remove left-over Trace() call.
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r2202 | stevenknight | 2007-08-01 12:31:48 -0500 (Wed, 01 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Bail out via test.skip_test() if wix ("candle") isn't found.
Put the main body of code flush left instead of under an if: block.
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r2203 | stevenknight | 2007-08-01 15:35:55 -0500 (Wed, 01 Aug 2007) | 5 lines
Fix Tool.packaging.rpm.package() so it doesn't always overwrite
$RPMFLAGS with -ta.
Set --buildroot in RPM packaging tests so they don't overwrite
each other when run simultaneously.
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r2204 | stevenknight | 2007-08-01 15:37:36 -0500 (Wed, 01 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix a nested scope issue with the internal build_sources() function.
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r2205 | stevenknight | 2007-08-01 15:46:08 -0500 (Wed, 01 Aug 2007) | 5 lines
Normalize (X out) the CreationDate field inside embedded, compressed
PostScript streams within the generated PDF files. Also normalize
preceding Length field, since compression length is affected by different
patterns of input, including the variable CreationDate value.
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r2211 | stevenknight | 2007-08-02 08:52:06 -0500 (Thu, 02 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Add the new modules from branches/packaging to the SCons packaging build.
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r2212 | stevenknight | 2007-08-02 19:59:01 -0500 (Thu, 02 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix the JAVACLASSPATH test when javah isn't on the default $PATH.
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r2214 | stevenknight | 2007-08-03 15:05:21 -0500 (Fri, 03 Aug 2007) | 4 lines
Hook up the Java builders into a multi-step chain underneath a Java()
pseudo-builder (wrapper) that examines its arguments and calls the
appropriate underlying file-or-dir builder.
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r2215 | stevenknight | 2007-08-03 15:49:58 -0500 (Fri, 03 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix for old Python versions: use apply() instead of *args, **kw.
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r2216 | stevenknight | 2007-08-03 16:49:31 -0500 (Fri, 03 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Hook up the SWIG builder as a source builder for .java files.
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r2217 | stevenknight | 2007-08-03 17:28:19 -0500 (Fri, 03 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Don't use .endswith(), which didn't appear until later Python versions.
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r2218 | stevenknight | 2007-08-03 17:29:38 -0500 (Fri, 03 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Replace tabs with spaces.
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r2219 | stevenknight | 2007-08-04 08:06:23 -0500 (Sat, 04 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Initialize a loop-invariant lambda for matching .java suffixes outside
the loop.
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r2220 | stevenknight | 2007-08-07 15:06:13 -0500 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Refactor parallel class-generation loops into one.
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r2221 | stevenknight | 2007-08-07 16:04:06 -0500 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 5 lines
Have the Java multi-step builder test actually check for generated files,
and fix the generation of .java and .class file names, and interaction
with the SWIG builder, so that the files are generated in the correct
place.
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r2222 | stevenknight | 2007-08-07 16:45:05 -0500 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Fix dependencies on SWIG-generated .java files so they don't have to
be built in multiple passes.
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r2226 | stevenknight | 2007-08-07 18:00:22 -0500 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix SWIG when used with BuildDir().
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r2227 | stevenknight | 2007-08-07 22:15:55 -0500 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 5 lines
User's guide updates:
- Make the multiple files example match its text.
- Expand a truncated sentence about being able to use Python function actions
in the Command() Builder.
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r2228 | stevenknight | 2007-08-07 23:25:18 -0500 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Don't generate an error if a #include file matches a same-named
directory in $CPPPATH (or $FORTRANPATH, etc.).
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r2229 | stevenknight | 2007-08-07 23:40:00 -0500 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix a code example. (Gary Oberbrunner)
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r2230 | stevenknight | 2007-08-08 00:05:43 -0500 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Capture a test case to make sure AddPostAction() doesn't interfere
with normal linking. (Matt Doar, Gary Oberbrunner)
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r2233 | stevenknight | 2007-08-08 14:15:44 -0500 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix documentation typo in a construction variable cross-reference.
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r2234 | stevenknight | 2007-08-08 17:03:25 -0500 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Changes to SCons packaging to support checkpoint releases.
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r2235 | stevenknight | 2007-08-09 10:10:01 -0500 (Thu, 09 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Sidestep false negatives on heavily loaded systems.
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r2236 | garyo | 2007-08-09 11:16:26 -0500 (Thu, 09 Aug 2007) | 1 line
Allow unpackaged files (e.g. *.pyo) to exist in the build dir without being packaged in the RPM. Without this, on some systems the rpmbuild may error out.
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r2237 | stevenknight | 2007-08-09 11:27:56 -0500 (Thu, 09 Aug 2007) | 5 lines
Fix test/SWIG/build-dir.py so it works on old Python versions without
distutils.sysconfig.
Instead of just cutting-and-pasting initialization code from other
SWIG tests, centralize it in some new TestSCons methods.
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r2238 | garyo | 2007-08-09 11:30:58 -0500 (Thu, 09 Aug 2007) | 1 line
Use docbook 4.3 instead of 4.4 for the XML doctype since some older(?) jade parsers can't handle new 4-byte Unicode chars in the 4.4 version of isogrk4.ent.
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r2240 | stevenknight | 2007-08-09 16:35:06 -0500 (Thu, 09 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
User's Guide updates (post packaging changes).
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r2243 | stevenknight | 2007-08-10 10:31:51 -0500 (Fri, 10 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Fix the User's Guide build to use openjade, and to accomodate a change
in the name of the main generated file (book1.html => index.html).
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r2245 | stevenknight | 2007-08-10 11:09:16 -0500 (Fri, 10 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Update the {CHANGES,RELEASE}.txt datestamp lines.
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r2253 | stevenknight | 2007-08-10 16:21:54 -0500 (Fri, 10 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix the wix Tool module's ability to handle null entries in $PATH.
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r2261 | stevenknight | 2007-08-11 23:08:12 -0500 (Sat, 11 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Remove unnecessary files (.svnt/*, .{ae,cvs}ignore, www/*) from the
scons-src packages.
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r2262 | stevenknight | 2007-08-11 23:24:49 -0500 (Sat, 11 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Add missing __revision__ lines.
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r2263 | stevenknight | 2007-08-11 23:33:42 -0500 (Sat, 11 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Skip the test if the MANIFEST file hasn't been built.
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r2264 | stevenknight | 2007-08-11 23:36:30 -0500 (Sat, 11 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Add recent compatibility modules to the relevant exceptions lists.
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r2265 | stevenknight | 2007-08-11 23:39:00 -0500 (Sat, 11 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Update __VERSION__ strings in the QMTest/*.py modules, so that packaging
tests (src/test_*.py) will pass after builds of checkpoint releases.
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r2266 | stevenknight | 2007-08-12 07:36:19 -0500 (Sun, 12 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Add a comment about why we construct the __VERSION__ string at run time.
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r2267 | stevenknight | 2007-08-12 07:42:30 -0500 (Sun, 12 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Avoid reading the MANIFEST file twice. (Courtesy review by Greg Noel.)
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r2268 | stevenknight | 2007-08-12 08:14:53 -0500 (Sun, 12 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Shift Install() and InstallAs() from being documented as functions
to being documented as Builders.
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r2269 | garyo | 2007-08-13 08:49:52 -0500 (Mon, 13 Aug 2007) | 1 line
Tests: Skip some more Java tests if javac is not installed on the test machine so they don't get marked as failing.
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r2270 | garyo | 2007-08-13 11:09:39 -0500 (Mon, 13 Aug 2007) | 1 line
Fixed typo in test (shows up on non-Linux platforms).
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r2271 | garyo | 2007-08-13 14:09:05 -0500 (Mon, 13 Aug 2007) | 4 lines
Test portability fixes for Darwin/OSX and IRIX.
This does not make all the tests pass on those OSes,
but it takes care of some of the more obvious errors that
I have time for right now. More to come.
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r2272 | stevenknight | 2007-08-13 15:33:29 -0500 (Mon, 13 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Tab => space fix.
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r2273 | stevenknight | 2007-08-13 15:33:52 -0500 (Mon, 13 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Test for swig, too, which is used to build from the .i file.
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r2277 | garyo | 2007-08-14 10:40:00 -0500 (Tue, 14 Aug 2007) | 8 lines
Test portability on IRIX: test/Actions/pre-post creates target file
before building target, then IRIX CC does not chmod +x afterwards.
I think this change is safe on all OSes.
test/AS/ml.py: I think this is only supposed to be run on win32
(not skipped only on win32); the sense of the skip test was backwards.
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r2278 | stevenknight | 2007-08-14 11:04:40 -0500 (Tue, 14 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Add -tt when running tests, to catch inconsistent tab usage.
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r2279 | stevenknight | 2007-08-14 14:00:43 -0500 (Tue, 14 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Minor refactor of logic in File.retrieve_from_cache().
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r2280 | stevenknight | 2007-08-15 01:11:40 -0500 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Refactor CacheDir support into its own module.
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r2281 | stevenknight | 2007-08-15 07:24:51 -0500 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Move the cachepath() method from FS.File to the CacheDir class.
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r2282 | stevenknight | 2007-08-15 08:31:34 -0500 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Python 1.5.2 fix in the new Null class.
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r2283 | stevenknight | 2007-08-15 10:45:53 -0500 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) | 5 lines
Refactor CacheDir unit tests to:
- restore functionality that was dropped in the transition;
- commonize creation of test Nodes and other (mock) objects
- separate CacheDir tests from tests of CacheDir through Node.FS.File.
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r2284 | stevenknight | 2007-08-15 11:46:38 -0500 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Replace the Executor.Null.NullEnvironment object with a real Null object,
so it will absorb the CacheDir method calls as well.
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r2285 | stevenknight | 2007-08-15 11:52:57 -0500 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) | 5 lines
Add a get_CacheDir() method to a construction environment, which will
be used to fetch per-environment CacheDir specifications. (Right now
all calls to it still just return the one attached to underlying default
FS object.)
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r2286 | stevenknight | 2007-08-15 15:15:46 -0500 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Support per-construction-environment configuration of CacheDir().
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r2287 | stevenknight | 2007-08-15 15:33:04 -0500 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Move the tests of CacheDir()-related command-line options into test/CacheDir.
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r2293 | stevenknight | 2007-08-16 11:14:49 -0500 (Thu, 16 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Add the Package() builder description to the documentation build,
fixing the XML so that it will build.
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r2294 | stevenknight | 2007-08-16 12:51:19 -0500 (Thu, 16 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Reorganize packaging documentation: alphabetize the variable definitions
(and function names), document Tag() as a function, not a builder.
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r2296 | stevenknight | 2007-08-16 12:55:01 -0500 (Thu, 16 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Add a build command.
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r2300 | stevenknight | 2007-08-16 16:49:13 -0500 (Thu, 16 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
First cut at documenting packaging variables.
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r2301 | stevenknight | 2007-08-16 16:51:21 -0500 (Thu, 16 Aug 2007) | 3 lines
Construct the .src.rpm and .arch.rpm file names independnetly, not
by trying to massage one into the other.
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diff --git a/doc/user/ENV.sgml b/doc/user/ENV.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index d843276..0000000 --- a/doc/user/ENV.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,208 +0,0 @@ - -<!-- - - __COPYRIGHT__ - - Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining - a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the - "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including - without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, - distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to - permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to - the following conditions: - - The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included - in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. - - THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY - KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE - WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND - NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE - LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION - OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION - WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. - ---> - - <para> - - When &SCons; builds a target file, - it does not execute the commands with - the same external environment - that you used to execute &SCons;. - Instead, it uses the dictionary - stored in the &cv-link-ENV; construction variable - as the external environment - for executing commands. - - </para> - - <para> - - The most important ramification of this behavior - is that the &PATH; environment variable, - which controls where the operating system - will look for commands and utilities, - is not the same as in the external environment - from which you called &SCons;. - This means that &SCons; will not, by default, - necessarily find all of the tools - that you can execute from the command line. - - </para> - - <para> - - The default value of the &PATH; environment variable - on a POSIX system - is <literal>/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin</literal>. - The default value of the &PATH; environment variable - on a Windows system comes from the Windows registry - value for the command interpreter. - If you want to execute any commands--compilers, linkers, etc.--that - are not in these default locations, - you need to set the &PATH; value - in the &cv-ENV; dictionary - in your construction environment. - - </para> - - <para> - - The simplest way to do this is to initialize explicitly - the value when you create the construction environment; - this is one way to do that: - - </para> - - <programlisting> - path = ['/usr/local/bin', '/bin', '/usr/bin'] - env = Environment(ENV = {'PATH' : path}) - </programlisting> - - <para> - - Assign a dictionary to the &cv-ENV; - construction variable in this way - completely resets the external environment - so that the only variable that will be - set when external commands are executed - will be the &PATH; value. - If you want to use the rest of - the values in &cv-ENV; and only - set the value of &PATH;, - the most straightforward way is probably: - - </para> - - <programlisting> - env['ENV']['PATH'] = ['/usr/local/bin', '/bin', '/usr/bin'] - </programlisting> - - <para> - - Note that &SCons; does allow you to define - the directories in the &PATH; in a string, - separated by the pathname-separator character - for your system (':' on POSIX systems, ';' on Windows): - - </para> - - <programlisting> - env['ENV']['PATH'] = '/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin' - </programlisting> - - <para> - - But doing so makes your &SConscript; file less portable, - (although in this case that may not be a huge concern - since the directories you list are likley system-specific, anyway). - - </para> - - <!-- - - <scons_example name="ex1"> - <file name="SConstruct" printme="1"> - env = Environment() - env.Command('foo', [], '__ROOT__/usr/bin/printenv.py') - </file> - <file name="__ROOT__/usr/bin/printenv.py" chmod="0755"> - #!/usr/bin/env python - import os - import sys - if len(sys.argv) > 1: - keys = sys.argv[1:] - else: - keys = os.environ.keys() - keys.sort() - for key in keys: - print " " + key + "=" + os.environ[key] - </file> - </scons_example> - - <para> - - </para> - - <scons_output example="ex1"> - <scons_output_command>scons -Q</scons_output_command> - </scons_output> - - --> - - <section> - <title>Propagating &PATH; From the External Environment</title> - - <para> - - You may want to propagate the external &PATH; - to the execution environment for commands. - You do this by initializing the &PATH; - variable with the &PATH; value from - the <literal>os.environ</literal> - dictionary, - which is Python's way of letting you - get at the external environment: - - </para> - - <programlisting> - import os - env = Environment(ENV = {'PATH' : os.environ['PATH']}) - </programlisting> - - <para> - - Alternatively, you may find it easier - to just propagate the entire external - environment to the execution environment - for commands. - This is simpler to code than explicity - selecting the &PATH; value: - - </para> - - <programlisting> - import os - env = Environment(ENV = os.environ) - </programlisting> - - <para> - - Either of these will guarantee that - &SCons; will be able to execute - any command that you can execute from the command line. - The drawback is that the build can behave - differently if it's run by people with - different &PATH; values in their environment--for example, - both the <literal>/bin</literal> and - <literal>/usr/local/bin</literal> directories - have different &cc; commands, - then which one will be used to compile programs - will depend on which directory is listed - first in the user's &PATH; variable. - - </para> - - </section> |