HCL 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. make was developed for UNIX systems and has been ported to other operating systems. You can use files controlled by VersionVault to build software, and use native make programs, third-party build utilities, own build programs of your company, or the VersionVault build tools clearmake and clearaudit.

The clearmake build tool provides compatibility with other make variants, along with powerful enhancements:

Build auditing, with automatic detection of source dependencies, including header file dependencies.
Automatic creation of permanent bill-of-materials documentation of the build process and its results.
Sophisticated build-avoidance algorithms to guarantee correct results when building in a parallel development environment.
Sharing of binaries among views, saving both time and disk storage.
Parallel building, applying the resources of multiple processors and/or multiple hosts to builds of large software systems.

The clearaudit build tool provides build auditing and creation of bill-of-materials documentation.

clearmake is intended for use in dynamic views. You can use it in a snapshot view, but the features that distinguish them from ordinary make programs (build avoidance, build auditing, derived object sharing, and so on) are not enabled in a snapshot view or an automatic view.

clearaudit requires a dynamic view context to be executed. clearaudit cannot be executed in a snapshot view, a web view, or an automatic view.