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Managing change and releases
Learn how to manage change and release in the product.
Guide to building software on Windows
Setting up a parallel build
Learn the process to set up and run parallel builds.
Setting up the client host
Issues in setting up the client host.

Managing change and releases
Learn how to manage change and release in the product.
- Managing software projects
- Workflow for creating projects
- Workflow for making baselines
- Workflow for recommending baselines
- Guide to building software on Linux and UNIX
- Guide to building software on Windows
  - VersionVault build concepts
    HCL VersionVault supports makefile based building of software systems and provides a software build environment closely resembling that of the make program.
  - Derived objects and configuration records
    Learn about derived objects and configuration records.
  - Pointers on using HCL VersionVault build tools
    Learn about how to use VersionVault build tools.
  - Working with DOs and configuration records
    You can perform operations on derived objects and configuration records.
  - clearmake makefiles and BOS files
    The HCL VersionVault build program, clearmake, can process makefiles.
  - Using clearmake compatibility modes
    clearmake is designed for compatibility with existing make programs, which minimizes the changes you need to make to your makefiles.
  - Using HCL VersionVault to build C++ programs
    Understand the guidelines and instructions to use the VersionVault build utilities, omake and clearmake, in C++ development environments such as Microsoft Visual C++. You will learn how the makefile fragment works and also present alternate possibilities for working around the problems.
  - Using HCL VersionVault build tools with Java
    The build behavior of Java tools causes various problems for clearmake and omake. Understand the problems and some possible solutions to resolve them.
  - Setting up a parallel build
    Learn the process to set up and run parallel builds.
    - Overview of parallel building
      HCL VersionVault can perform builds in which multiple processes execute in parallel the build scripts associated with the makefile targets.
    - Setting up the client host
      Issues in setting up the client host.
    - Starting a parallel build
      Follow the steps mentioned in this content to start a parallel build.
    - Preventing parallel builds of targets
      Follow the process mentioned in this content to prevent parallel builds of targets.
    - Preventing exponential invocations of abe
      Follow the process mentioned in this content to prevent exponential invocations of abe.

Setting up the client host

Issues in setting up the client host.

There are two issues to consider when you set up client-side processing for parallel builds:

The number of parallel build processes to request. clearmake limits the number of concurrent target rebuilds to the value of the CCASE_CONC environment variable or the number that you specify with the -J command-line option. clearmake does not start more abe processes than specified.
The limitations and requirements for system loading on the build host. clearmake submits as many build scripts as allowed by the -J or CCASE_CONC setting.