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| author | Heiko Schlittermann (HS12-RIPE) <hs@schlittermann.de> | 2016-11-04 00:08:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Heiko Schlittermann (HS12-RIPE) <hs@schlittermann.de> | 2016-11-04 08:20:38 +0100 |
| commit | fefe59d9280bc0b33fb9e1e89d0d664db8078542 (patch) | |
| tree | f4ac4d7a9636875144028c9bc0b5a8117a4aa8ed /src | |
| parent | 87e93574a5da99b5f36751a4219caacc4e81ea3c (diff) | |
Introduce EXIM_BUILD_SUFFIX for src/Makefile and testsuite
This enables parallel builds in a shared directory, if they have
the same os-type and arch-type. Think about EXIM_BUILD_SUFFIX
as 'name of your linux distro'
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/Makefile | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile index adda7ceb3..ccaca1c13 100644 --- a/src/Makefile +++ b/src/Makefile @@ -19,8 +19,14 @@ RM_COMMAND=/bin/rm # provide an override for the OS type and architecture type; they still have # to be used for the OS-specific files. To override them, you can set the # shell variables OSTYPE and ARCHTYPE when running make. - -buildname=$${build:-`$(SHELL) scripts/os-type`-`$(SHELL) scripts/arch-type`} +# +# EXIM_BUILD_SUFFIX should be used to enable parallel builds on a file +# system shared among different Linux distros (same os-type, same +# arch-type). The ../test/runtest script is expected to honour the +# EXIM_BUILD_SUFFIX when searching the Exim binary. +# NOTE: EXIM_BUILD_SUFFIX is considered *experimental*. + +buildname=$${build:-`$(SHELL) scripts/os-type`-`$(SHELL) scripts/arch-type`}$${EXIM_BUILD_SUFFIX:+.$$EXIM_BUILD_SUFFIX} # The default target checks for the existence of Local/Makefile, that the main # makefile is built and up-to-date, and then it runs it. |