Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Core-talk <[email protected]> · Fri, 8 Nov 2019 08:28:33 -0800

On 11/8/19 7:45 AM, Benjamin Franksen via Core-talk wrote:
> This is a feature request, or perhaps rather a "feature completion" request.
> 
> In base-3.15.6 and base-7.0.x I can define make variables TESTPROD or
> TESTLIBRARY which means it will be generated in the usual way, but won't
> be installed into the $(TOP)/bin or $(TOP)/lib.
> 
> I am missing a way to define the corresponding dbd file in a similar
> manner. That is, I want to define TESTDBD so that it gets created like a
> normal DBD, but not installed under $(TOP)/dbd.

While there is no explicit way to do this, the effect can be achieved.
eg. from the Base unittests:

https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/blob/6d8bf7c8ef02e9dfe024f2632ea27de11f583f46/modules/database/test/std/rec/Makefile#L22-L25

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System