confSRCDIR

confSRCDIR

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Location of sendmail source

Build macro

All the auxiliary programs that are supplied with sendmail (such as mail.local and praliases ) need pieces of source from the sendmail source directory to compile. The location of that directory defaults to ../../sendmail . ^[23] Should you need to relocate that source tree (as you might, for example, if you wished to do extensive source modification in a new directory) you can redefine the source location with this confSRCDIR macro:

^[23] Prior to V8.10 the default was ../../src .

 define(`confSRCDIR', `../../newsendmail') 

Note that confSRCDIR gives a value to the SRCDIR= Makefile directive, and that make is run inside an obj.. . directory, hence the ../../ prefixing newsendmail .

Should you need to relocate the sendmail source to a totally different disk or machine, you must define confSRCDIR as a full pathname:

 define(`confSRCDIR', `/usr/local/devel/sendmail/custome1.5/src') 

Be careful never to define confSRCDIR under a temporary mount point, such as tmp_mnt , because that mount point might not exist the next time you try to Build . And note that SRCDIR= is always the current directory for sendmail , so nothing special needs to be done to Build if you move the source.