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| 33 | <h1>Release notes</h1> |
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| 35 | <blockquote> |
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| 36 | <center><i>Notation</i></center> |
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| 37 | <ul> |
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| 38 | <li class="new">New features</li> |
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| 39 | <li class="bug">Bug fixes</li> |
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| 40 | <li class="int">Internal management</li> |
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| 48 | <b>v1r16p20040901</b> |
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| 50 | <ul> |
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| 52 | <!-- |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | <li class="new">Introduce the support of SLC3 (Scientific |
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| 59 | Linux) platforms</li> |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | <li class="new">Trigger the reconstruction of the dependency |
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| 62 | makefile fragment from a change in the |
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| 63 | <package>_setup.make, ie from any change in tags, uses |
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| 64 | or CMTPATHs</li> |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | <li class="new"><tt>CMTBIN</tt> now follows a new convention |
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| 67 | on Unix `uname`-`uname -m` to differentiate among Linux |
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| 68 | platforms.</li> |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | <li class="new">Introduce a new -strict option to the cmt |
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| 71 | expand model to support model files freely formatted. This |
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| 72 | implied securing the user defined model elements by the |
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| 73 | <tt>cmts</tt> or <tt>cmtv</tt> name space |
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| 74 | keywords. <tt>cmts:xxx</tt> indicates a scalar modelling |
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| 75 | element <tt>xxx</tt> meant to be expanded only |
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| 76 | once. <tt>cmtv:yyy</tt> indicates a vector modelling element |
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| 77 | <tt>yyy</tt> meant to be expanded once per item in the |
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| 78 | vector of values.</li> |
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| 79 | |
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| 80 | <li class="new">Better management of temporary file |
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| 81 | generation. Now support the standard TMPDIR environment |
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| 82 | variable to redirect temporary locations.</li> |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | <li class="int">Apply the new GPL-like licence officially |
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| 85 | provided by CNRS-CEA-INRIA</li> |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | <li class="int">Use stderr instead of stdout to display |
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| 88 | error and warning messages. Mainly to better expose messages in |
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| 89 | the source setup operations</li> |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | <li class="bug">Protect against source files not found (avoid infinite loops in make)</li> |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | <li class="bug">Better management of the build strategy on |
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| 94 | installation area to generate various automatic macros or |
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| 95 | sets (installarea_linkopts, PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, |
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| 96 | etc...)</li> |
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| 97 | |
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| 98 | <li class="bug">Revisit the package scan algorithm to |
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| 99 | improve the detection of directory structure of packages as |
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| 100 | well as their version tags.</li> |
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| 101 | |
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| 102 | <li class="bug">Compress the path definitions (ie compress |
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| 103 | the ../xxx patterns) and use the compressed paths |
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| 104 | everywhere</li> |
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| 105 | |
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| 106 | </ul> |
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| 108 | </li> |
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| 110 | <li> |
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| 111 | <b>v1r16p20040701</b> |
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| 113 | <ul> |
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| 121 | <li class="bug">Better generation of .def files for DATA</li> |
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| 123 | <li class="bug">fix a bug that impacted on the order of |
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| 124 | compatible use requests with different wilcarded specifications</li> |
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| 125 | |
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| 126 | </ul> |
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| 130 | <li> |
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| 131 | <b>v1r16p20040527</b> |
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| 141 | <li class="new">Generate the <tt>target_${CONSTITUENT}</tt> |
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| 142 | tag to trigger configuration control per target. This |
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| 143 | feature is only activated when the new <tt>-target_tag</tt> |
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| 144 | option is specified to a constituent. Specific tag makefiles |
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| 145 | are then generated for those targets. This tag is activated |
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| 146 | either when <tt>make <target></tt> or <tt>cmt do |
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| 147 | <action></tt> is run.</li> |
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| 148 | |
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| 149 | <li class="new">Add a section on package semantics in the documentation</li> |
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| 150 | |
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| 151 | <li class="new">The <tt>apply_tag</tt> keyword now accepts macro expansion for its argument.</li> |
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| 152 | |
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| 153 | <li class="new">Add the support for Enterprise Linux</li> |
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| 154 | |
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| 155 | <li class="new">Create automatic tags from |
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| 156 | <tt>cmt_hardware</tt> <tt>cmt_system_version</tt> and |
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| 157 | <tt>cmt_compiler_version</tt></li> |
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| 158 | |
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| 159 | <li class="new">Add a filtering script to keep 3 digits instead of 2</li> |
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| 160 | |
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| 161 | <li class="int">Start the implementation of a centralized log message facility</li> |
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| 162 | |
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| 163 | <li class="int">Implement a <tt>READONLY</tt> mode to |
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| 164 | Makefiles to generate all intermediate files in |
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| 165 | <tt>/tmp/CMT_*</tt> rather than in <tt>../cmt</tt></li> |
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| 166 | |
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| 167 | <li class="int">Associate a dedicated project with CMTHOME and CMTUSERCONTEXT to manage strategies</li> |
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| 168 | |
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| 169 | <li class="bug">Set the macro <tt>shlibsuffix</tt> for Win32</li> |
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| 170 | <li class="bug">Use /bin/pwd instead of the raw pwd in various CMT scripts for Unix</li> |
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| 171 | <li class="bug">Fix misunderstanding of of version specification of the form v1r2p (ie without a trailing number)</li> |
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| 172 | <li class="bug">Explicitly close the scope sections at the end of requirements files</li> |
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| 173 | |
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| 174 | </ul> |
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| 176 | </li> |
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| 177 | |
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| 178 | <li> |
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| 179 | <b>v1r16</b> |
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| 180 | |
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| 181 | <ul> |
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| 189 | <li class="new">Offer an [x]emacs mode for editing requirements files</li> |
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| 190 | |
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| 191 | <li class="new">Permit macro expressions in the <tt>tag</tt> statement</li> |
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| 192 | |
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| 193 | <li class="new">Possibility to specify additional |
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| 194 | <tt>mount_filters</tt> in <tt>.cmtrc</tt></li> |
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| 195 | |
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| 196 | <li class="new">Introduce new regexp-based remove operations |
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| 197 | for symbols <tt>macro_remove_regexp</tt>, |
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| 198 | <tt>set_remove_regexp</tt> and |
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| 199 | <tt>path_remove_regexp</tt></li> |
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| 200 | |
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| 201 | <li class="new">Add <tt>-n</tt> and <tt>-v</tt> options to |
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| 202 | <tt>cmt cvs</tt> commands to support simulation and verbose |
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| 203 | modes</li> |
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| 204 | |
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| 205 | <li class="new">Ensure that the <tt>constituents</tt> macro is always private</li> |
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| 206 | |
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| 207 | <li class="new">Introduce support for <i>projects</i> |
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| 208 | associated with package areas, i.e. one project per item in |
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| 209 | <tt>CMTPATH</tt>. Possibility to setup strategies per |
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| 210 | project. Project definitions stored in a new |
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| 211 | <tt>cmt/project.cmt</tt> top level file. New |
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| 212 | <tt><package>_project</tt> standard macro. And |
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| 213 | associated pattern templates.</li> |
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| 214 | |
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| 215 | <li class="new">Make <tt>CMTINSTALLAREA</tt> a macro instead of a set</li> |
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| 216 | |
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| 217 | <li class="new">Suppress dependency computation when the |
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| 218 | <tt>make QUICK=1</tt> option is used</li> |
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| 219 | |
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| 220 | <li class="new">New <i>action</i> concept to support |
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| 221 | simplified shell action definition. Action is an extension |
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| 222 | of the generic symbol mechanism (like macros), thus defining |
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| 223 | an action uses the same syntax as macros. Actions are |
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| 224 | triggered with <tt>make</tt> or <tt>cmt do</tt></li> |
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| 225 | |
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| 226 | <li class="new"><i>public</i> and <i>private</i> section can be ended by a |
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| 227 | new keyword <tt>end_public</tt> <tt>end_private</tt>. Ending |
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| 228 | keywords switch back to the previous scope active before the |
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| 229 | most recent opening keyword</li> |
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| 230 | |
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| 231 | <li class="new">Can use a pattern name as a plain CMT |
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| 232 | keyword. I.e. the <tt>apply_pattern</tt> keyword is optional |
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| 233 | except to resolve ambiguities</li> |
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| 234 | |
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| 235 | <li class="int">Generate part of the standard macros before |
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| 236 | reading the requirements file</li> |
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| 237 | |
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| 238 | <li class="int">Lots of internal optimisations checked with |
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| 239 | <tt>valgrind</tt> and <tt>gprof</tt></li> |
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| 240 | |
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| 241 | <li class="bug">Only set non empty environment variables</li> |
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| 242 | |
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| 243 | <li class="bug">Fix bad definition of <tt><PACKAGE>VERSION</tt></li> |
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| 244 | |
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| 245 | <li class="bug">Add dependency to all stamps file to trigger rebuild of shared libraries</li> |
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| 246 | |
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| 247 | <li class="bug">Add dependency to all requirements file to trigger rebuild of applications</li> |
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| 248 | |
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| 249 | <li class="bug">Suppress install area cleanup action from |
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| 250 | cmt config and cmt setup</li> |
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| 251 | |
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| 252 | <li class="bug">Improved syntax checking on constituents</li> |
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| 253 | |
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| 254 | <li class="bug">Fix construction of paths when symlinks |
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| 255 | exist along pwd</li> |
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| 256 | |
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| 257 | <li class="bug">Added various protections for bad pattern |
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| 258 | syntaxes</li> |
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| 259 | |
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| 260 | </ul> |
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| 262 | </li> |
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| 263 | <li> |
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| 264 | <b>v1r14p20031120</b> |
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| 265 | <ul> |
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| 266 | <li class="new">Add a new standard macro $(<group>_dependencies)to specify global dependencies for a group</li> |
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| 267 | <li class="new">Add support for bundles on Darwin platforms</li> |
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| 268 | <li class="bug">Consider symlinked paths in CMTPATH entries</li> |
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| 269 | <li class="bug">Always setup cmtpath patterns even if the current installation area is undefined</li> |
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| 270 | |
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| 271 | <li class="new">Provide a generic pacman manifest file for |
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| 272 | CMT. All instances of the "<version>" pattern need to be |
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| 273 | substituted by the effective version of CMT to make it a |
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| 274 | real pacman file as follows: |
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| 275 | <pre>sed -e 's#[<]version[>]#'`cmt -quiet version`'#g' $CMTROOT/mgr/CMT.pacman</pre> |
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| 276 | </li> |
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| 277 | |
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| 278 | </ul> |
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| 279 | </li> |
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| 280 | |
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| 281 | <li> |
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| 282 | <b>v1r14p20031027</b> |
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| 283 | <ul> |
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| 284 | <li class="bug">Fix a bug in the bootstrap mechanism to define CMTINSTALLAREA</li> |
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| 285 | </ul> |
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| 286 | </li> |
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| 287 | |
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| 288 | <li> |
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| 289 | <b>v1r14p20031022</b> |
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| 290 | <ul> |
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| 291 | <li class="new">Add the possibility to specify exclusion files when installing directories in Installation Area (on windows only)</li> |
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| 292 | <li class="bug">Fix a bug : CMTINSTALLAREA symbol has to be defined before all other symbols in set_standard_macros</li> |
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| 293 | <li class="bug">Few fixes on nmake flavour of install area mechanisms</li> |
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| 294 | <li class="new">Generate <package>_cmtpath and <package>_offset also for current package</li> |
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| 295 | <li class="bug">Fix warning messages that confuse csh when environment variables are not defined</li> |
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| 296 | </ul> |
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| 297 | </li> |
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| 298 | |
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| 299 | <li> |
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| 300 | <b>v1r14p20031014</b> |
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| 301 | <ul> |
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| 302 | <li class="bug">Fix a problem in broadcast operation for handling return status 2 (caused to unexpectedly break the loop in some cases)</li> |
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| 303 | <li class="bug">Force auto_imports to On when context is unspecified (internal)</li> |
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| 304 | <li class="bug">Stop trying to make use of PWD</li> |
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| 305 | <li class="bug">Fix a bug in internal incomplete expansion of macros</li> |
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| 306 | <li class="bug">Fix a bug in consistency checks of PWD vs CMTINSTALLAREA</li> |
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| 307 | <li class="new">Convert $(cmtpath) and $(offset) macros to $(package_cmtpath) and $(package_offset)</li> |
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| 308 | <li class="new">Add dependency list for constituent makefile similar to the constituent target (force the same build order)</li> |
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| 309 | <li class="bug">Fix a bug in use graph internal management</li> |
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| 310 | <li class="bug">Fix setup script calling mechanism in no_version style</li> |
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| 311 | <li class="new">Add a -k=<regexp> argument for selection patterns of constituent sources.</li> |
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| 312 | <li class="new">Support wildcarded suffixes (*.*) in constituent sources</li> |
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| 313 | <li class="new">Standardize the output format of show uses (make it reliable for user scripts)</li> |
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| 314 | </ul> |
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| 315 | </li> |
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| 316 | |
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| 317 | <li> |
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| 318 | <b>v1r14p20030811</b> |
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| 319 | <ul> |
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| 320 | <li class="bug">Trailing slashes on offset specification in use statement were causing troubles. Now they are properly handled.</li> |
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| 321 | <li class="new">The broadcast pattern as well as the standard macro <cmtpath> is now renamed <package_cmtpath> to avoid confusion with the CMTPATH variable on Windows.</li> |
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| 322 | <li class="int">Make use of ${PWD} when available to acquire the value for "cmt show pwd"</li> |
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| 323 | <li class="bug">Add or refresh tuning for CYGWIN and for LynxOS</li> |
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| 324 | <li class="bug">Work around a limitation of some old version of the C++ compiler on LynxOS</li> |
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| 325 | <li class="new">Improve the display of incompatible use specifications.</li> |
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| 326 | <li class="int">Dynamically create the CMTDownload.html web page to really reflect what is available when installing the CMT release on the primary CMT web site.</li> |
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| 327 | <li class="bug">Setup.bat scripts on DOS are now relocatable wrt heterogeneous file systems (AFS, DFS, etc...)</li> |
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| 328 | </ul> |
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| 330 | |
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| 331 | <li> |
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| 332 | <b>v1r14p20030620</b> |
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| 333 | <ul> |
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| 334 | <li class="new">introduce a generic "Unix" tag for all Unix platforms. Both Linux, HP-UX, LynxOS, alpha, ... do validate Unix</li> |
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| 335 | <li class="new">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.</li> |
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| 336 | <li class="bug">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</li> |
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| 337 | <li class="new">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.</li> |
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| 338 | <li class="new">add a command "cmt show cycles" to display circular dependencies in the use graph.</li> |
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| 339 | <li class="new">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)</li> |
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| 340 | <li class="new">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)</li> |
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| 341 | <li class="bug">The setup scripts for Windows now use %TEMP% instead of %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% to store temporary files (contributions from Pere Mato and Florence Ranjard)</li> |
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| 342 | <li class="new">Add the --public and --private global options for cmt commands, to control whether the use graph traverses or not the private sections: |
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| 343 | <pre> |
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| 344 | > cmt --public ... |
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| 345 | </pre> |
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| 346 | only sees public uses (default behavior for most commands but not for cmt broadcast and cmt show uses which traverse the private sub graphs) |
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| 347 | <pre> |
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| 348 | > cmt --private ... |
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| 349 | </pre> |
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| 350 | 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.</li> |
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| 351 | <li class="bug">A global pattern specifying private sections did not really generate private definitions</li> |
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| 368 | <address><a href="mailto:arnault@lal.in2p3.fr">Christian Arnault</a></address> |
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