PH20800: BUILD AUDITS MAY BE MISSING NON-MAKEFILE DEPENDENCIES AFTER UPGRADING BUILD ENVIRONMENTS TO VISUAL STUDIO 2017

Rational ClearCase Fix Pack 1 (9.0.2.1) for 9.0.2
Rational ClearCase Fix Pack 9 (9.0.1.9) for 9.0.1
Rational ClearCase Fix Pack 2 (9.0.2.2) for 9.0.2
Rational ClearCase Fix Pack 10 (9.0.1.10) for 9.0.1
Rational ClearCase Fix Pack 3 (9.0.2.3) for 9.0.2
Rational ClearCase Fix Pack 11 (9.0.1.11) for 9.0.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• After upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 or later, audited builds
  on Windows hosts may be incomplete with various non-Makefile
  dependencies not listed. This will appear most often in the
  "linked" objects.
  
  Newer Visual Studio releases no longer explicitly close library
  and other files read during the link process. Instead, they
  allow the operating system to close the files after the process
  exits. As the closes happened outside the audited process, the
  MVFS and build tools did not record those files as being part of
  the audit.
  

Local fix

• Update to 9.0.1.8 and contact technical support for a testfix
  for this issue.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Users of ClearCase on Microsoft Windows, who build using     *
  * Visual Studio 2017 or newer.                                 *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * When using ClearCase to build software using Visual Studio   *
  * 2017 or newer on Microsoft Windows, the build audit may be   *
  * incomplete.  This would cause some build target's            *
  * configuration records to be incomplete, and also could cause *
  * build targets to fail to rebuild even though another         *
  * component on which the target depends has changed.           *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• Fixed in ClearCase 9.0.1.9
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CLEARCASE WIN

• Fixed component ID

  5724G2900

Applicable component levels

• R901 PSY

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