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SCons 0.92 fixes a potentially critical Win32 problem

SCons release 0.92, the third SCons beta release, is now available for download. SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make) implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build tool). This release fixes a potentially critical problem discovered shortly after version 0.91 was released.

SCons 0.91 would not work on Win32 systems unless either the Visual Studio linker or the GCC linker was installed, or a custom-defined linker was used.
Normal operation on other systems, or on Win32 systems with the Visual Studio, GCC or custom-defined linkers, was unaffected.

This release contains two other fixes:
- Support for the PharLap linker was not working properly in 0.91, and has been fixed.
- When the YACC -o option was used to specify an output file with a different basename than the source file, SCons would mistakenly think that the basename of the generated .h file should match the source file, not the target file. This has been fixed.

Additionally, the Debian (.deb) package available from the SCons web site or SourceForge project page has been updated to match the dependencies and other particulars of the (out of date) Debian package available from debian.org. In particular, the package is now dependent on Python 2.2 instead of Python 2.1.

Posted by Steven Knight 2003-08-21

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