Re: [Exim] possible: testing before installation of upgrade…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Odhiambo G. Washington
CC: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] possible: testing before installation of upgrade?
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:

> > 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
> >
> > 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...


Be careful. If you run Exim from a place other than its install place,
you also need to set exim_path so that if it re-execs itself, it gets
the same binary and not the installed one.



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