confBLDVARIANT

confBLDVARIANT

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Controls variations on objects

Build macro

This confBLDVARIANT Build macro is used to convey to the make program a notion of how the compile should run. The possibilities are:

DEBUG

Sets the confOPTIMIZE Build macro to a value of -g for FreeBSD or to -g -Wall for Linux.

OPTIMIZED

Sets the confOPTIMIZE Build macro to a value of -O for FreeBSD or to -O2 for Linux.

PURIFY

Sets the confOPTIMIZE Build macro to a value of -g for FreeBSD and Linux.

The way you use this confBLDVARIANT Build macro looks like this:

 define(`confBLDVARIANT', `DEBUG') define(`confBLDVARIANT', `OPTIMIZED') define(`confBLDVARIANT', `PURIFY') 

The -v command-line switch (-v) for the Build program uses command-line arguments of debug , optimized , and purify to automatically set this confBLDVARIANT macro.

Note that the arguments used for confBLDVARIANT are all uppercase, while those used for -v are all lowercase.

Variants are available only for FreeBSD and Linux as of V8.12.2 sendmail . If you are on another OS, this macro will silently be ignored. If you attempt to use PURIFY, you will see the following Build -time error:

 Sorry, the purify build variant has not been plumbed yet. (Bummer.) 

Read the RELEASE_NOTES file supplied with the sendmail source to see if more recent versions support purify and other operating systems.