ClearCase and cyclone Homepage at the MPIfM

yes! Since 14.03.2002 the new Version 2002 of clearcase is installed on cyclone. A lot of patches for solaris 6 are also new.

For use with the new release, all VOBs had to be reformated, so that also files with more than 2 GByte can be handled. That means that earlier versions of ClearCase will not work anymore.

In general all pathes and variables used by ClearCase are set in the global login files but if you have scripts or login files that set the path to the cc binaries or the variable ATRIAHOME you have to change them:
csh and tcsh:
setenv ATRIAHOME /export/home/atria/cchome5
setenv PATH $PATH:/export/home/atria/cchome5/bin
sh and ksh:
ATRIAHOME =/export/home/atria/cchome5
export ATRIAHOME
PATH =$PATH:/export/home/atria/cchome5/bin
export $PATH
(Just change your 4 in cchome4 to 5 means cchome5 ;-)

A problem ooccurs by using the "diff tool" (that's a click on the triangle and it calls a program called "xcleardiff"). And you also have that problem when you use xcleardiff as a "stand alone tool". The error message says:
cleartool: Error: Child process aborted with signal 11
cleartool: Error: Unable to invoke operation "xcompare" for manager "text_file_delta": -1
cleartool: Error: (Operation pathname was: "/export/home/atria/cchome5/lib/mgrs/text_file_delta/xcompare")
when called from xclearcase and simply "segmentation fault" when called stand alone.
Solution:
find the file "xcleardiff" in the directory ~/.Rational/ClearCase and add a line
xcleardiff*font_type:font
to it. And, if you do not have the file xcleardiff in that directory - download it and put it there.