Release Notes

Externals version: <a href="http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/76root6/>LCGCMT_76root6</a>

General Changes

• Fixes and improvements to the CMake configuration system
  • Fixed GAUDI-981: -DNDEBUG not passed to genreflex
  • Modified Findtcmalloc.cmake to support new gperftools headers path.
  • Use "c++14" (instead of "c++1y") for gcc >= 5.1
  • LHCBPS-1394: disable optimizations in debug with -do0 BINARY_TAG suffix
  • Fixed GAUDI-1031: improve XML errors report in xenv
  • Fixed GAUDI-1019: use relocatable path for gcc
  • Fixed LBCORE-766: simultaneous use of Qt4 and Qt5
  • Fixed GAUDI-991: toolchain.cmake should fail when a project is missing
  • GAUDI-1012: disable optimization in debug if GAUDI_SLOW_DEBUG=TRUE
  • Fixed GAUDI-1010: too aggressive search of .qmt files
  • Fixed GAUDI-1007: tests in a directory are added in alphabetical order
  (Marco Clemencic)
• LBCORE-716: include path order not correct
• LBCORE-725: relocatability of CMake builds
• added the possibility to extend the toolchain for a project
• GAUDI-1004: avoid cmake segfault when there is a loop in the dependencies between projects

(<span class="author">Marco Clemencic</span>)</li>

</ul> See also the release notes on JIRA.

Packages Changes

• GaudiMonitor (v5r4):
  • GAUDI-1024: Replaced Tokenizer with AttribStringParser or a regular expression.
    (Marco Clemencic)
• Gaudi (v26r2):
  • GAUDI-986: Improve memory and time usage of application bootstrap with gaudirun.py.
    (Marco Clemencic)
  • Fixed GAUDI-1033: segfaults when calling Python functions from C++.
    (Marco Clemencic)
• PartPropSvc (v6r3):
  • GAUDI-1024: Replaced Tokenizer with AttribStringParser or a regular expression.
    (Marco Clemencic)
• GaudiSvc (v21r6):
  • GAUDI-1024: Replaced Tokenizer with AttribStringParser or a regular expression.
    (Marco Clemencic)
  • Use C++11 lambdas instead of boost::bind in FileMgr
    (Marco Clemencic)
• GaudiProfiling (v2r5):
  • Modified GoogleAuditor.cpp to support new gperftools headers path.
    (Marco Clemencic)
• RootCnv (v1r23p2):
  • GAUDI-1024: Replaced Tokenizer with AttribStringParser or a regular expression.
    (Marco Clemencic)
• GaudiKernel (v31r5):
  • Improved ToolHandle constructor.
    (Charles Leggett)
  • Fixed GAUDI-312: invalid read in Tokenizer.
    (Stewart Martin-Haugh)
  • GAUDI-1024: Replaced Tokenizer with AttribStringParser or a regular expression.
    • Added Gaudi::Utils::AttribStringParser to replace Tokenizer
    • Added deprecation warning to Tokenizer.h.
    (Marco Clemencic)
  • GAUDI-1023: issue a warning when re-declaring a property
    (Marco Clemencic)
  • GAUDI-1018: Respect VERBOSE setting in genconf and genconfuser.
    (Marco Clemencic)
  • Use C++11 functional instead of boost/function.hpp in IFileMgr.
    (Marco Clemencic)
  • Fixed GAUDI-1028: typo in ConfigurableUser
    (Rosen Matev)
  • Fixed GAUDI-1030: remove Algorithm property "ErrorCount"
    • Renamed the property to "ErrorCounter".
    • Added accessor Algorithm::errorCount().
    (Marco Clemencic)
  • GAUDI-1016: allow checking of GaudiHandle wrapped pointer without retrieving it
    (Marco Clemencic)
  • GAUDI-1011: Support std::tuple and std::array properties in jobs options
    (Sasha Mazurov)
  • Fixed GAUDI-1017: GaudiUtils::Map cannot be used as property after GAUDI-1011
    (Marco Clemencic)
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  • GaudiPython (v13r5):
    • GAUDI-1009: remove GaudiPython.Bindings.makeClass
      (Marco Clemencic)
    • Faster version of the workaround for ROOT-6697.
      (Rosen Matev)
  • GaudiCoreSvc (v3r4):
    • GAUDI-1024: Replaced Tokenizer with AttribStringParser or a regular expression.
      (Marco Clemencic)
  • GaudiPolicy (v15r5):
    • Fixed GAUDI-1035: cannot build a satellite project with only GaudiExamples
      (Marco Clemencic)
    • Fixed escaping of special XML/HTML chars in CTestXML2HTML.
      (Marco Clemencic)
    • Select 'dbg' in test reference files if the platform contains 'do0'.
      (Marco Clemencic)
  • GaudiCommonSvc (v3r5):
    • Fixed GAUDI-1036: Unchecked StatusCodes.
      (Marco Clemencic)
    • GAUDI-1024: Replaced Tokenizer with AttribStringParser or a regular expression.
      (Marco Clemencic)
    • Fixed GAUDI-1014: Unchecked StatusCode with gcc 4.9
      (Marco Clemencic)
  • GaudiExamples (v26r2):
    • Do not build MultiInput example if RootCnvLib is not built (CMake version).
      (Marco Clemencic)
    • Updated test reference files.
      (Marco Clemencic)