Re: [boost] Boost.Build V2, Milestone 7 released

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-14 22:53:16

I'd really really like to use the v2 stuff...unfortunately I don't have any 
bison/flex that runs on my system.
At Thursday 2003-09-11 02:51, you wrote:

>I'm pleased to announce that the next milestone release of Boost.Build V2 is
>available at
>
>     http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-build-2.0-m7.tar.bz2
>     http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-build-2.0-m7.zip
>
>See also
>
>     http://boost.sourceforge.net/boost-build2/
>
>for online docs (a copy is included in distribution).
>
>Changes in this release:
>
>     - Performance was improved.
>     - Support for Sun and Darwin toolsets was added.
>     - <tag> feature, which changes the name of target depending of build
>       variant, was implemented.
>     - Old-style targets-ids are no longer supported.
>     - New 'glob' rule allows to easily perform wildcard matching in Jamfile.
>     - Improve bison/flex support to understand C++.
>
>The following bugs were fixed:
>
>     - bogus error on use of project default-build attribute with several
>       main target alternatives.
>     - broken toolset inheritance
>     - hard error after skipping a target due to incompatible requirements
>     - incorrect behaviour of a generator when producing several targets of
>       the same type
>     - errors on use of the 'project-root' rule in Jamfile context
>     - inability to require specific compiler version for a main target.
>     - incorrect behaviour of "bjam msvc" when msvc is configured with 
> explicit
>       version.
>
>Thanks to Christopher Currie, Pedro Ferreira and Michael Stevens, who
>contributed to this release.
>
>- Volodya
>
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