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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] possible: testing before installation of upgrade?
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* Jonathan Vanasco <jvanasco@???> [20040107 20:31]: wrote:
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> I can't seem to figure out a way to do this:
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> I've compiled exim 4.30 w/sa-exim and exiscan patches -- with no error
> currently, i have exim 4.23 w/sa-exim and exiscan running
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> i'd like to find some way to test the 4.30 build before installing --
> to make sure that i didn't mess up and configuration variable
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> is there any way to do this? perhaps specify an alt destination dir in
> Local/Makefile or "make install" and run 4.3 in testing mode
> concurrently?



Just define another spool and logfile paths in the Makefile. It's not
even necessary to do `make install`. Just run the binary from the build
directory ... exim-4.30/build-.../exim -C path/to/configure -oX 2525
will do...



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