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  r2885 | stevenknight | 2008-04-18 21:38:59 -0700 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Update troubleshooting appendix for new Taskmaster output.
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  r2886 | bdbaddog | 2008-04-19 15:15:03 -0700 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Fix infinite loop in Fortran tool initialization.
  Bug 2017.
  Steven fixed, I tested.
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  r2887 | garyo | 2008-04-20 17:44:46 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Added this in two sections; simple one when discussing simple builds, and an example in the VariantDir section showing how it still works there.
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  r2888 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:33:01 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Accomodate test/MSVC/msvc.py's reliance on the Windows Platform SDK
  (for now) by making use of the user's %INCLUDE% and %LIB% variables.
  Split some independent embedded subtests into their own test scripts.
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  r2889 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:38:05 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Windows portability fix (line endings).
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  r2890 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:44:24 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Update Windows portion of if:-elif: block for a variable name change.
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  r2891 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:52:41 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  On Windows, escape backslashes on the --interactive command line input,
  so people can build targets in other directories.
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  r2892 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 21:56:50 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix ripple effects on Windows from redefining how $CXXFLAGS gets
  added to C++ command lines.
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  r2893 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 22:04:50 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Handle a ripple effect from redefining the file() and open() builtin
  functions by explicitly restoring the originals whenever we reset
  the global state between tests.
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  r2894 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 23:17:23 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove by-hand backslash escaping, now that --interactive mode is handling it.
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  r2895 | stevenknight | 2008-04-20 23:23:04 -0700 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Mention the fix for the Fortran suffix out-of-memory bug
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diff --git a/doc/user/less-simple.in b/doc/user/less-simple.in
index 76afa30..7b45271 100644
--- a/doc/user/less-simple.in
+++ b/doc/user/less-simple.in
@@ -209,6 +209,30 @@
   </section>
 
   <section>
+  <title>Making a list of files with Glob()</title>
+
+    <para>
+
+    You can also use the Glob() function to find all files matching a
+    certain template, using standard the shell pattern matching
+    characters *, ?, and [abc] to match any of a, b, or c.  [!abc] is
+    also supported, to match any character <emphasis>except</emphasis>
+    a, b, or c.  This makes many multi-source-file builds quite easy:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <sconstruct>
+       Program('program', Glob('*.c'))
+    </sconstruct>
+
+    <para>
+
+    The SCons man page has more details on using Glob() with Variant
+    dirs and Repositories and returning strings rather than Nodes.
+
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
   <title>Specifying Single Files Vs. Lists of Files</title>
 
     <para>
diff --git a/doc/user/less-simple.xml b/doc/user/less-simple.xml
index eea3425..c6ded70 100644
--- a/doc/user/less-simple.xml
+++ b/doc/user/less-simple.xml
@@ -198,6 +198,30 @@
   </section>
 
   <section>
+  <title>Making a list of files with Glob()</title>
+
+    <para>
+
+    You can also use the Glob() function to find all files matching a
+    certain template, using standard the shell pattern matching
+    characters *, ?, and [abc] to match any of a, b, or c.  [!abc] is
+    also supported, to match any character <emphasis>except</emphasis>
+    a, b, or c.  This makes many multi-source-file builds quite easy:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+       Program('program', Glob('*.c'))
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    The SCons man page has more details on using Glob() with Variant
+    dirs and Repositories and returning strings rather than Nodes.
+
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
   <title>Specifying Single Files Vs. Lists of Files</title>
 
     <para>
diff --git a/doc/user/separate.in b/doc/user/separate.in
index be7e6c5..dc77af3 100644
--- a/doc/user/separate.in
+++ b/doc/user/separate.in
@@ -466,6 +466,63 @@ program using the F<build/foo.c> path name.
 
   </section>
 
+  <section>
+  <title>Using Glob() with &VariantDir;</title>
+
+    <para>
+
+    The Glob() file name pattern matching function
+    works just as usual when using &VariantDir;.
+    For example, if the
+    <filename>src/SConscript</filename>
+    looks like this:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <scons_example name="example_glob_builddir_sconscript">
+      <file name="SConstruct">
+      VariantDir('build', 'src')
+      SConscript('build/SConscript')
+      </file>
+      <file name="src/SConscript" printme="1">
+      env = Environment()
+      env.Program('hello', Glob('*.c'))
+      </file>
+      <file name="src/f1.c">
+      #include "f2.h"
+      int main() { printf(f2()); }
+      </file>
+      <file name="src/f2.c">
+      const char * f2() { return("Hello, world!\n"); }
+      </file>
+      <file name="src/f2.h">
+      const char * f2();
+      </file>
+    </scons_example>
+
+    <para>
+
+    Then with the same &SConstruct; file as in the previous section,
+    and source files f1.c and f2.c in src, we would see the following
+    output:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <scons_output example="example_glob_builddir_sconscript">
+      <scons_output_command>ls src</scons_output_command>
+      <scons_output_command>scons -Q</scons_output_command>
+      <scons_output_command>ls build</scons_output_command>
+    </scons_output>
+
+    <para>
+
+    The Glob function returns Nodes in the build/ tree, as
+    you'd expect.
+
+    </para>
+
+  </section>
+
   <!--
 
   <section>
diff --git a/doc/user/separate.xml b/doc/user/separate.xml
index 57ade04..c5e90e0 100644
--- a/doc/user/separate.xml
+++ b/doc/user/separate.xml
@@ -457,6 +457,52 @@ program using the F<build/foo.c> path name.
 
   </section>
 
+  <section>
+  <title>Using Glob() with &VariantDir;</title>
+
+    <para>
+
+    The Glob() file name pattern matching function
+    works just as usual when using &VariantDir;.
+    For example, if the
+    <filename>src/SConscript</filename>
+    looks like this:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      env = Environment()
+      env.Program('hello', Glob('*.c'))
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    Then with the same &SConstruct; file as in the previous section,
+    and source files f1.c and f2.c in src, we would see the following
+    output:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <screen>
+      % <userinput>ls src</userinput>
+      SConscript  f1.c  f2.c  f2.h
+      % <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
+      cc -o build/f1.o -c build/f1.c
+      cc -o build/f2.o -c build/f2.c
+      cc -o build/hello build/f1.o build/f2.o
+      % <userinput>ls build</userinput>
+      SConscript  f1.c  f1.o  f2.c  f2.h  f2.o  hello
+    </screen>
+
+    <para>
+
+    The Glob function returns Nodes in the build/ tree, as
+    you'd expect.
+
+    </para>
+
+  </section>
+
   <!--
 
   <section>
diff --git a/doc/user/troubleshoot.xml b/doc/user/troubleshoot.xml
index dc90622..0a34559 100644
--- a/doc/user/troubleshoot.xml
+++ b/doc/user/troubleshoot.xml
@@ -1115,11 +1115,10 @@
       % <userinput>scons -Q --debug=stacktrace</userinput>
       scons: *** Source `prog.c' not found, needed by target `prog.o'.  Stop.
       scons: internal stack trace:
-        File "bootstrap/src/engine/SCons/Job.py", line 131, in start
+        File "bootstrap/src/engine/SCons/Job.py", line 187, in start
         File "bootstrap/src/engine/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 169, in prepare
-        File "bootstrap/src/engine/SCons/Taskmaster.py", line 169, in prepare
-        File "bootstrap/src/engine/SCons/Node/FS.py", line 2551, in prepare
-        File "bootstrap/src/engine/SCons/Node/__init__.py", line 349, in prepare
+        File "bootstrap/src/engine/SCons/Taskmaster.py", line 184, in prepare
+        File "bootstrap/src/engine/SCons/Executor.py", line 171, in prepare
     </screen>
 
     <para>
@@ -1174,24 +1173,35 @@
 
     <screen>
       % <userinput>scons -Q --taskmastertrace=- prog</userinput>
-      Taskmaster: 'prog': children:
-          ['prog.o']
-          waiting on unfinished children:
-          ['prog.o']
-      Taskmaster: 'prog.o': children:
-          ['inc.h', 'prog.c']
-          waiting on unfinished children:
-          ['inc.h', 'prog.c']
-      Taskmaster: 'prog.c': evaluating prog.c
-      Taskmaster: 'inc.h': evaluating inc.h
-      Taskmaster: 'prog.o': children:
-          ['inc.h', 'prog.c']
-          evaluating prog.o
+      
+      Taskmaster: Looking for a node to evaluate
+      Taskmaster:     Considering node &lt;no_state   'prog'&gt; and its children:
+      Taskmaster:        &lt;no_state   'prog.o'&gt;
+      Taskmaster:     Considering node &lt;no_state   'prog.o'&gt; and its children:
+      Taskmaster:        &lt;no_state   'prog.c'&gt;
+      Taskmaster:        &lt;no_state   'inc.h'&gt;
+      Taskmaster:     Considering node &lt;no_state   'prog.c'&gt; and its children:
+      Taskmaster: Evaluating &lt;pending    'prog.c'&gt;
+      
+      Taskmaster: Looking for a node to evaluate
+      Taskmaster:     Considering node &lt;no_state   'inc.h'&gt; and its children:
+      Taskmaster: Evaluating &lt;pending    'inc.h'&gt;
+      
+      Taskmaster: Looking for a node to evaluate
+      Taskmaster:     Considering node &lt;pending    'prog.o'&gt; and its children:
+      Taskmaster:        &lt;up_to_date 'prog.c'&gt;
+      Taskmaster:        &lt;up_to_date 'inc.h'&gt;
+      Taskmaster: Evaluating &lt;pending    'prog.o'&gt;
       cc -o prog.o -c -I. prog.c
-      Taskmaster: 'prog': children:
-          ['prog.o']
-          evaluating prog
+      
+      Taskmaster: Looking for a node to evaluate
+      Taskmaster:     Considering node &lt;pending    'prog'&gt; and its children:
+      Taskmaster:        &lt;executed   'prog.o'&gt;
+      Taskmaster: Evaluating &lt;pending    'prog'&gt;
       cc -o prog prog.o
+      
+      Taskmaster: Looking for a node to evaluate
+      Taskmaster: No candidate anymore.
     </screen>
 
     <para>