Release notes

• New features
• Bug fixes
• Internal management

• v1r14p20031120
  • Add a new standard macro $(<group>_dependencies)to specify global dependencies for a group
  • Add support for bundles on Darwin platforms
  • Consider symlinked paths in CMTPATH entries
  • Always setup cmtpath patterns even if the current installation area is undefined
  • Provide a generic pacman manifest file for CMT. All instances of the "<version>" pattern need to be substituted by the effective version of CMT to make it a real pacman file as follows:

    sed -e 's#[<]version[>]#'`cmt -quiet version`'#g' $CMTROOT/mgr/CMT.pacman

• v1r14p20031027
  • Fix a bug in the bootstrap mechanism to define CMTINSTALLAREA
• v1r14p20031022
  • Add the possibility to specify exclusion files when installing directories in Installation Area (on windows only)
  • Fix a bug : CMTINSTALLAREA symbol has to be defined before all other symbols in set_standard_macros
  • Few fixes on nmake flavour of install area mechanisms
  • Generate <package>_cmtpath and <package>_offset also for current package
  • Fix warning messages that confuse csh when environment variables are not defined
• v1r14p20031014
  • Fix a problem in broadcast operation for handling return status 2 (caused to unexpectedly break the loop in some cases)
  • Force auto_imports to On when context is unspecified (internal)
  • Stop trying to make use of PWD
  • Fix a bug in internal incomplete expansion of macros
  • Fix a bug in consistency checks of PWD vs CMTINSTALLAREA
  • Convert $(cmtpath) and $(offset) macros to $(package_cmtpath) and $(package_offset)
  • Add dependency list for constituent makefile similar to the constituent target (force the same build order)
  • Fix a bug in use graph internal management
  • Fix setup script calling mechanism in no_version style
  • Add a -k=<regexp> argument for selection patterns of constituent sources.
  • Support wildcarded suffixes (*.*) in constituent sources
  • Standardize the output format of show uses (make it reliable for user scripts)
• v1r14p20030811
  • Trailing slashes on offset specification in use statement were causing troubles. Now they are properly handled.
  • The broadcast pattern as well as the standard macro <cmtpath> is now renamed <package_cmtpath> to avoid confusion with the CMTPATH variable on Windows.
  • Make use of ${PWD} when available to acquire the value for "cmt show pwd"
  • Add or refresh tuning for CYGWIN and for LynxOS
  • Work around a limitation of some old version of the C++ compiler on LynxOS
  • Improve the display of incompatible use specifications.
  • Dynamically create the CMTDownload.html web page to really reflect what is available when installing the CMT release on the primary CMT web site.
  • Setup.bat scripts on DOS are now relocatable wrt heterogeneous file systems (AFS, DFS, etc...)
• v1r14p20030620
  • introduce a generic "Unix" tag for all Unix platforms. Both Linux, HP-UX, LynxOS, alpha, ... do validate Unix
  • hide the make_fragments declaration in private sections. This was not true previously. A make_fragment declaration installed in a private section will now be hidden to clients.
  • convert ${} into $() syntax for tag makefiles on Windows. This actually reverts to a feature of an old CMT version which had disappeared. This was causing a problem since the ${} syntax is not understood by nmake
  • add a command "cmt show use_paths <target>" to display all possible paths to the target package. This is useful to understand how a given package is reached, for instance when it is desired to cut the use relationship and make it private somewhere in the graph.
  • add a command "cmt show cycles" to display circular dependencies in the use graph.
  • provide a binary RPM for CMT itself (only for redhat 7.2 distribution). It is downloadable from the usual Download page and provide a complete installation of CMT (including make fragments, binary, etc..). It is a relocatable RPM (install it using the --relocate option). (See the install WEB page for complete notice)
  • Add an extended script to retrieve information about Linux version (cmt_linux_version.sh). It supports Redhat, Debian, Suse. It is used to compute the cmt_system_version macro (contributions from Clark McGrew and Wim Lavrijsen)
  • The setup scripts for Windows now use %TEMP% instead of %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% to store temporary files (contributions from Pere Mato and Florence Ranjard)
  • Add the --public and --private global options for cmt commands, to control whether the use graph traverses or not the private sections:

    > cmt --public ...
    

    only sees public uses (default behavior for most commands but not for cmt broadcast and cmt show uses which traverse the private sub graphs)

    > cmt --private ...
    

    forces the traversal of private subgraphs. This is already the default behavior for cmt show uses and for cmt broadcast, but can now be applied to any CMT command.
  • A global pattern specifying private sections did not really generate private definitions