SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Edition 1 Manufacturing Part Number: 5187-4208 September 2003 United States © Copyright 2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company L. P. All rights reserved.
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SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Announcements Announcements SoftBench 6.X from HP is the latest version of premier Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ software developers. This version of SoftBench provides the same tight integration (editing, building, and debugging) that has always been available from SoftBench. SoftBench 6.X includes the following changes: • The SoftBench project model helps you group important information together and reduce the overall complexity of software projects.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes What’s in This Version What’s in This Version SoftBench 6.X is a visual development environment for C and C++ professionals who develop software for HP-UX. SoftBench 6.X includes the following benefits and features: • Benefits — The SoftBench 6.X environment offers multiple ways to develop software more effectively. It includes the following benefits: — Natural Interaction with the Development Environment: SoftBench 6.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes What’s in This Version — SoftBench CM: SoftBench CM is ideal for managing geographically separated development teams. Unlike other configuration management systems, SoftBench CM does not require additional infrastructure, and there is no need for a dedicated configuration management administrator. SoftBench CM is bundled with both C and C++ SoftBench. — Integrated XEmacs Editor: SoftBench 6.X uses XEmacs as its default source code editor.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds This section describes the known problems in SoftBench 6.90. For the latest list of problems and workarounds, visit the following URL: http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSoftwareDetailPage_IDX/1,1703,1722,00.ht ml Before running SoftBench 6.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds You can modify this behavior by setting the environment variable, SB_LOAD_DOT_EMACS. If it is set to TRUE, the .emacs file will be automatically loaded, and if it is set to FALSE, the file is not loaded. In addition, if you want to load an alternate file, you can set the variable to the name of the file you want to load. NOTE • A help window is displayed until a value for this variable is set.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds 1. On the Target menu, choose Modify Properties. This displays the Modify Target Properties dialog box. Notice that the relevant target is selected in the Select Build Configuration list of this dialog box. 2. Click Customize Build Configuration. This displays the Customize Build Configuration for Target dialog box. 3. Click the Specify Include and Compile Options arrow.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Prerequisites for SoftBench are listed in the Installing SoftBench manual. This section describes additional installation information, which is not covered in the manual. Patch Requirement SoftBench requires a patch on HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.0X. For the latest patch information, visit the following URL: http://h21007.www2.hp.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information This section provides integration or compatibility information on the following software: • ClearCase The integration of SoftBench with ClearCase provides you a familiar interface to the version control and configuration management functions of ClearCase. You can also configure the SoftBench Builder to use clearmake, the ClearCase build tool.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Using SoftBench with ClearCase Views SoftBench assumes that an absolute pathname always identifies the same, unique file. Since absolute pathnames in different views can refer to different files, do not start any SoftBench process from a shell that is set to a view. Use view-extended pathnames to indicate the desired contexts. Before referencing files in a particular view, ensure that the view is started using Start View.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • CacheFS SoftBench 6.X does not support CacheFS (provided with the Networking Enhancements Release for HP-UX 10.20 [April 1998]). Installation Problems This section discusses the problems faced on installating SoftBench: • Removal of SoftBench 5.X If you install SoftBench 6.X, SoftBench 5.X is removed from your system. To restore SoftBench 5.X, perform the following steps: 1. Remove SoftBench 6.X. 2.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements * Beginning Modification Phase. WARNING: Cannot delete the definition for “/opt/softbench/config/buildt/include/f90.rules” from the fileset “SB-SoftBenchCore.SB-GNUBIN-MAN”.The file does not exist in this fileset. ERROR:The selected software was not modified. All of the specified file modifications are invalid. See the ERROR and/or WARNING messages above. • X11MotifDevKit Problem When you install SoftBench on HP-UX 10.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements WARNING This command forcibly removes the Cfront compilers. 2. Remove the SB6.90 bundle. Use the swlist command to determine the SoftBench bundles you have installed. The C++ SoftBench bundles that need to be removed are: B6447EB, B6448EB, B6451EB, and B6452EB. 3. Remove the C++ SoftBench bundles using swremove.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version Patches and Fixes in This Version SoftBench 6.90 includes the following fixes: SR Number Description JAGae36574 WDB-GUI as default debugger. JAGae42784 SoftDebug core dumps. JAGae45620 SoftDebug UI does not terminate when DDE is not present.
SoftBench 6.90 Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages SoftBench 6.X is available in English and Japanese.
