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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/libraries.xml b/doc/user/libraries.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..035ebd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/user/libraries.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,421 @@
+<!--
+
+  __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>
+
+  It's often useful to organize large software projects
+  by collecting parts of the software into one or more libraries.
+  &SCons; makes it easy to create libraries
+  and to use them in the programs.
+
+  </para>
+
+  <section>
+  <title>Building Libraries</title>
+
+    <para>
+
+    You build your own libraries by specifying &b-link-Library;
+    instead of &b-link-Program;:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      Library('foo', ['f1.c', 'f2.c', 'f3.c'])
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    &SCons; uses the appropriate library prefix and suffix for your system.
+    So on POSIX or Linux systems,
+    the above example would build as follows
+    (although &ranlib; may not be called on all systems):
+
+    </para>
+
+    <screen>
+      % <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+      cc -o f1.o -c f1.c
+      cc -o f2.o -c f2.c
+      cc -o f3.o -c f3.c
+      ar rc libfoo.a f1.o f2.o f3.o
+      ranlib libfoo.a
+    </screen>
+
+    <para>
+
+    On a Windows system,
+    a build of the above example would look like:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <screen>
+      C:\><userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+      cl /nologo /c f1.c /Fof1.obj
+      cl /nologo /c f2.c /Fof2.obj
+      cl /nologo /c f3.c /Fof3.obj
+      lib /nologo /OUT:foo.lib f1.obj f2.obj f3.obj
+    </screen>
+
+    <para>
+
+    The rules for the target name of the library
+    are similar to those for programs:
+    if you don't explicitly specify a target library name,
+    &SCons; will deduce one from the
+    name of the first source file specified,
+    and &SCons; will add an appropriate
+    file prefix and suffix if you leave them off.
+
+    </para>
+
+    <section>
+    <title>Building Libraries From Source Code or Object Files</title>
+
+      <para>
+
+      The previous example shows building a library from a
+      list of source files.
+      You can, however, also give the &b-link-Library; call
+      object files,
+      and it will correctly realize
+      In fact, you can arbitrarily mix source code files
+      and object files in the source list:
+
+      </para>
+
+      <programlisting>
+        Library('foo', ['f1.c', 'f2.o', 'f3.c', 'f4.o'])
+      </programlisting>
+
+      <para>
+
+      And SCons realizes that only the source code files
+      must be compiled into object files
+      before creating the final library:
+
+      </para>
+
+      <screen>
+        % <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+        cc -o f1.o -c f1.c
+        cc -o f3.o -c f3.c
+        ar rc libfoo.a f1.o f2.o f3.o f4.o
+        ranlib libfoo.a
+      </screen>
+
+      <para>
+
+      Of course, in this example, the object files
+      must already exist for the build to succeed.
+      See <xref linkend="chap-nodes"></xref>, below,
+      for information about how you can
+      build object files explicitly
+      and include the built files in a library.
+
+      </para>
+
+    </section>
+
+    <section>
+    <title>Building Static Libraries Explicitly:  the &b-StaticLibrary; Builder</title>
+
+      <para>
+
+      The &b-link-Library; function builds a traditional static library.
+      If you want to be explicit about the type of library being built,
+      you can use the synonym &b-link-StaticLibrary; function
+      instead of &b-Library;:
+
+      </para>
+
+      <programlisting>
+        StaticLibrary('foo', ['f1.c', 'f2.c', 'f3.c'])
+      </programlisting>
+
+      <para>
+
+      There is no functional difference between the
+      &b-link-StaticLibrary; and &b-Library; functions.
+
+      </para>
+
+    </section>
+
+    <section>
+    <title>Building Shared (DLL) Libraries:  the &b-SharedLibrary; Builder</title>
+
+      <para>
+
+      If you want to build a shared library (on POSIX systems)
+      or a DLL file (on Windows systems),
+      you use the &b-link-SharedLibrary; function:
+
+      </para>
+
+      <programlisting>
+        SharedLibrary('foo', ['f1.c', 'f2.c', 'f3.c'])
+      </programlisting>
+
+      <para>
+
+      The output on POSIX:
+
+      </para>
+
+      <screen>
+        % <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+        cc -o f1.os -c f1.c
+        cc -o f2.os -c f2.c
+        cc -o f3.os -c f3.c
+        cc -o libfoo.so -shared f1.os f2.os f3.os
+      </screen>
+
+      <para>
+
+      And the output on Windows:
+
+      </para>
+
+      <screen>
+        C:\><userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+        cl /nologo /c f1.c /Fof1.obj
+        cl /nologo /c f2.c /Fof2.obj
+        cl /nologo /c f3.c /Fof3.obj
+        link /nologo /dll /out:foo.dll /implib:foo.lib f1.obj f2.obj f3.obj
+        RegServerFunc(target, source, env)
+      </screen>
+
+      <para>
+
+      Notice again that &SCons; takes care of
+      building the output file correctly,
+      adding the <literal>-shared</literal> option
+      for a POSIX compilation,
+      and the <literal>/dll</literal> option on Windows.
+
+      </para>
+
+    </section>
+
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+  <title>Linking with Libraries</title>
+
+    <para>
+
+    Usually, you build a library
+    because you want to link it with one or more programs.
+    You link libraries with a program by specifying
+    the libraries in the &cv-link-LIBS; construction variable,
+    and by specifying the directory in which
+    the library will be found in the 
+    &cv-link-LIBPATH; construction variable:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      Library('foo', ['f1.c', 'f2.c', 'f3.c'])
+      Program('prog.c', LIBS=['foo', 'bar'], LIBPATH='.')
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    Notice, of course, that you don't need to specify a library
+    prefix (like <literal>lib</literal>)
+    or suffix (like <literal>.a</literal> or <literal>.lib</literal>).
+    &SCons; uses the correct prefix or suffix for the current system.
+
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+
+    On a POSIX or Linux system,
+    a build of the above example would look like:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <screen>
+      % <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+      cc -o f1.o -c f1.c
+      cc -o f2.o -c f2.c
+      cc -o f3.o -c f3.c
+      ar rc libfoo.a f1.o f2.o f3.o
+      ranlib libfoo.a
+      cc -o prog.o -c prog.c
+      cc -o prog prog.o -L. -lfoo -lbar
+    </screen>
+
+    <para>
+
+    On a Windows system,
+    a build of the above example would look like:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <screen>
+      C:\><userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+      cl /nologo /c f1.c /Fof1.obj
+      cl /nologo /c f2.c /Fof2.obj
+      cl /nologo /c f3.c /Fof3.obj
+      lib /nologo /OUT:foo.lib f1.obj f2.obj f3.obj
+      cl /nologo /c prog.c /Foprog.obj
+      link /nologo /OUT:prog.exe /LIBPATH:. foo.lib bar.lib prog.obj
+    </screen>
+
+    <para>
+
+    As usual, notice that &SCons; has taken care
+    of constructing the correct command lines
+    to link with the specified library on each system.
+
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+
+    Note also that,
+    if you only have a single library to link with,
+    you can specify the library name in single string,
+    instead of a Python list,
+    so that:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      Program('prog.c', LIBS='foo', LIBPATH='.')
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    is equivalent to:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      Program('prog.c', LIBS=['foo'], LIBPATH='.')
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    This is similar to the way that &SCons;
+    handles either a string or a list to
+    specify a single source file.
+
+    </para>
+
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+  <title>Finding Libraries:  the &cv-LIBPATH; Construction Variable</title>
+
+    <para>
+
+    By default, the linker will only look in
+    certain system-defined directories for libraries.
+    &SCons; knows how to look for libraries
+    in directories that you specify with the
+    &cv-link-LIBPATH; construction variable.
+    &cv-LIBPATH; consists of a list of
+    directory names, like so:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      Program('prog.c', LIBS = 'm',
+                        LIBPATH = ['/usr/lib', '/usr/local/lib'])
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    Using a Python list is preferred because it's portable
+    across systems.  Alternatively, you could put all of
+    the directory names in a single string, separated by the
+    system-specific path separator character:
+    a colon on POSIX systems:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      LIBPATH = '/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib'
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    or a semi-colon on Windows systems:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      LIBPATH = 'C:\\lib;D:\\lib'
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    (Note that Python requires that the backslash
+    separators in a Windows path name
+    be escaped within strings.)
+
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+
+    When the linker is executed,
+    &SCons; will create appropriate flags
+    so that the linker will look for
+    libraries in the same directories as &SCons;.
+    So on a POSIX or Linux system,
+    a build of the above example would look like:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <screen>
+      % <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+      cc -o prog.o -c prog.c
+      cc -o prog prog.o -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lm
+    </screen>
+
+    <para>
+
+    On a Windows system,
+    a build of the above example would look like:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <screen>
+      C:\><userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+      cl /nologo /c prog.c /Foprog.obj
+      link /nologo /OUT:prog.exe /LIBPATH:\usr\lib /LIBPATH:\usr\local\lib m.lib prog.obj
+    </screen>
+
+    <para>
+
+    Note again that &SCons; has taken care of
+    the system-specific details of creating
+    the right command-line options.
+
+    </para>
+
+  </section>