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Summary: Need Makefile option to build only exim daemon
Product: Exim
Version: 4.68
Platform: All
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/402604
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: wishlist
Priority: low
Component: Unfiled
AssignedTo: ph10@???
ReportedBy: mh+exim-bugzilla@???
CC: exim-dev@???
Hi,
the Debian packages build exim at least twice: once as exim4-daemon-light, once
as exim4-daemon-heavy and optionally once as exim4-daemon-custom. All three
daemons are built with different compile-time options to allow for different
feature sets.
We, however, only need the various utilities (exicyclog, exinext, exiwhat,
exigrep, eximstats, exipick, exiqgrep, exiqsumm, convert4r3, convert4r4,
exim_checkaccess, exim_dbmbuild, exim_dumpdb, exim_fixdb, exim_tidydb,
exim_lock and possibly others) only once.
Hence, we build exim4-daemon-light by simply calling $(MAKE), while, for
exim4-daemon-heavy and exim4-daemon-custom, the ugly construction
$(MAKE) -C build-$(buildname) checklocalmake Makefile os.h os.c config.h
buildpcre buildlookups buildrouters buildtransports buildauths exim
seems to be needed. This is bound to break (possibly unnoticed) if upstream
(you *grins*) decides to change the Makefile structure.
It would therefore be a very good thing to have a Makefile option like
"exim-daemon" in the Makefile in the build-$OS-$ARCH directory, which would do
the same things as "allexim", but without building the entire array of
utilities.
From my limited knowledge of Make, I think the (untested) following would be in
order:
allexim: config.h exim-utils exim-daemon
exim-utils: $(EXIM_MONITOR) exicyclog exinext exiwhat \
exigrep eximstats exipick exiqgrep exiqsumm \
transport-filter.pl convert4r3 convert4r4 \
exim_checkaccess \
exim_dbmbuild exim_dumpdb exim_fixdb exim_tidydb exim_lock
exim-daemon: buildlookups buildrouters buildtransports buildauths exim
Please consider offering this kind of flexibility in a future release.
Greetings
Marc
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