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| 30 | <h1>FCM 2-3 Release Notes <small>26 October 2012</small></h1> |
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| 37 | <p>These are the release notes for FCM 2-3. This release of FCM is distributed |
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| 38 | under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" |
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| 49 | <h2 id="changes-highlight">Highlight Changes</h2> |
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| 52 | <dt><a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" rel="license">GNU General |
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| 53 | Public License</a></dt> |
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| 55 | <dd> |
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| 56 | <p>From this release onwards, FCM will be released under the terms of the |
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| 57 | GNU General Public License.</p> |
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| 60 | <dt><code>fcm make</code></dt> |
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| 62 | <dd> |
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| 63 | <p>Build system now recognises all text files starting with a |
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| 64 | <code>#!</code> line as scripts.</p> |
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| 66 | <p>Build system target selection logic has been improved to work more |
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| 67 | efficiently, and to work correctly with a complex case of non-fatal cyclic |
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| 68 | dependency.</p> |
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| 69 | </dd> |
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| 72 | <h2 id="changes-minor">Minor Changes and Bug Fixes</h2> |
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| 75 | <dt><code>fcm branch-create</code></dt> |
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| 77 | <dd> |
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| 78 | <p>Fixed: no longer issue an incorrect error when creating a branch for a |
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| 79 | project that resides at the root level of a repository.</p> |
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| 80 | </dd> |
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| 81 | |
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| 82 | <dt><code>fcm make</code></dt> |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | <dd> |
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| 85 | <p>The behaviour of the <code>--new</code> option is modified to remove |
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| 86 | only step directories defined in the <code>steps</code> declaration |
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| 87 | instead of all known steps in the configuration.</p> |
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| 89 | <p>Mirror: write to the mirror target a <samp>fcm-make.cfg.orig</samp> file |
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| 90 | containing the configuration of the original <code>fcm make</code> |
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| 91 | invocation.</p> |
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| 92 | </dd> |
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| 93 | |
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| 94 | <dt><code>fcm loc-layout</code></dt> |
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| 95 | |
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| 96 | <dd> |
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| 97 | <p>New command to parse a Subversion target and print the FCM layout |
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| 98 | information of its URL.</p> |
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| 99 | |
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| 100 | <dt><code>fcm mkpatch</code></dt> |
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| 102 | <dd> |
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| 103 | <p>Import scripts now uses <code>/bin/bash</code> instead of |
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| 104 | <code>/bin/sh</code>.</p> |
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| 105 | </dd> |
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| 106 | </dl> |
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| 108 | <h2 id="issues">Known Issues</h2> |
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| 111 | <dt>Build inheritance limitation: handling of include files</dt> |
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| 113 | <dd>See the <a href="../user_guide/make.html#build.inherit">User Guide > |
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| 114 | FCM Make > Build > Build Inheritance</a> for detail.</dd> |
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