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Benjamin Franksen via Core-talk <[email protected]> · Fri, 8 Nov 2019 18:56:22 +0100

Thanks Michael

This is pretty cool. It means I can add TESTDBD myself simply by defining:

TARGETS += $(TESTDBD:%=$(COMMON_DIR)/%)
DBDDEPENDS_FILES += $(TESTDBD:%=%$(DEP))
TESTFILES += $(TESTDBD:%=$(COMMON_DIR)/%)

and then

TESTDBD += mytest.dbd

does what I want.

Cheers
Ben

Am 08.11.19 um 17:28 schrieb Michael Davidsaver:
> 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
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