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clearmake: Error: Unable to find ancestor directory of audited object

Troubleshooting


Problem

This technote identifies an issue that can occur in IBM Rational ClearCase where Clearmake is not correctly following the rename of a Derived Object (DO) candidate container.

Symptom

If a makefile writes a file in a view-private directory and then moves the directory to another path, Clearmake is not correctly following the rename of a DO candidate's container.

Example makefile:

# Use in a VOB, where source is a versioned directory
all:
rm -fr source/23546
mkdir source/23546
mkdir source/23546/libxml2-2.6.17
mkdir source/23546/libxml2-2.6.17/example
touch source/23546/libxml2-2.6.17/example/Makefile.am
mvdir source/23546/libxml2-2.6.17 source

When running the build, an error message is produced:

clearmake: Error: Unable to find ancestor directory of audited object
"/project/exampleproject/source/23546/libxml2-2.6.17/example/Makefile.am"
clearmake: Error: Unable to execute build script for "all"

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Modified date:
16 June 2018

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