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-m11.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-build-2.0-m11.zip See also http://boost.org/boost-build2/ for online docs (a copy is included in distribution). Changes in this release: - New C++ compilers: IBM xlf, HP aCC, HP CXX, Intel fortran compiler. - New tools: Qt4 support, MS message compiler and IDL compiler. - New main targets: 'notfile' and 'cast'. - Core changes: - Only one file required at top level of a project, named Jamroot. - Jamfiles can now contain project-specific help messages. - "Indirect conditional requirements" introduced (http://tinyurl.com/mn3jp) - Strip suffix in main target names when computing names of generated files (URL) - The 'source-location' project attribute can contain several directories. - Usage requirements are propagated not only direct dependents, but to indirect dependents. - Command line option changes (see http://tinyurl.com/zbycz) - New option --build-dir - The --clean option cleans only target below the current directory, not globally. - New --clean-all option was added. - New option --debug-building - Running "bjam some_directory" works even if there's no Jamfile in the current directory. - Toolset improvements: - Assembling support with gcc, borland and msvc. - Support amd64/ia64 cross-compiling with msvc. - Improved, registry-based autodetection for msvc. - Serialize execution of gcc.link actions - Precompiled headers supported on MSVC (Need documentation) - New features <warnings> and <warnings-as-errors> - The 'glob' rule accepts wildcards in directory names. - The 'stage' rule was renamed to 'install' (the old name still available for compatibility) - The <tag> feature can accept user-defined function as value (URL) - The 'install' rule can install a directory hierarchy preserving relative paths. - The 'install' rule no longer allows to change library name during install. - The Jamfile referred via 'use-project' may declare project id different from the one in 'use-project'. - The 'using' rule now searches the directory of containing Jamfile. The following bugs were fixed: - The <library> feature was ignored for static linking - Fix #include scanning for C files. - Child projects were sometimes loaded before parent projects. - Fix project references with absolute paths on Windows. - The <dependency> feature was ignored for 'install' targets. - A generator having the same type in sources and targets was causing hang. - Use 'icpc' command for Intel, fixing errors with 8.1 and higher. - Generation of PS files with the FOP tool really produces .PS files. - No dependency scanning was done for C files. - The 'constant' and 'path-constant' rules did not accept multi-element value. - Don't pass -fcoalesce-templates to gcc on OSX 10.4 - Fix static lib suffix on OSX. - Fix rpath setting on Intel/Linux. - The 'install' rule don't unnecessary scans #includes in installed headers. Developer visible changes: - Ability to customize type's prefix depending on build properties. - Generator's 'run' method can return usage-requirements. - Main target rule is automatically declared for each new target type. - 'Link incompatible' feature attribute was removed - Generators no longer bypass unhandled sources, they just ignore them. - If there are several applicable generators, immediately report ambiguity. Provide a way to explicitly resolve conflicts between generators. - The 'flags' rule can match absense of feature. - Great improvement in response files handling - The 'toolset.flags' rules allows value-less feature to signify absense of this feature (fix hack-hack). - Automatically declare main target rule for each declared target type. - When inheriting types, inherit generators for the base type, as opposed to using various hacks to invoke base generators when needed. - Improve diagnostic for "duplicate actual target" and generator ambiguity. - Volodya -- Vladimir Prus http://vladimir_prus.blogspot.com Boost.Build V2: http://boost.org/boost-build2