From 1245a007b7d23fa8b39b47060358141094067f8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Janet Anderson <jba@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:11:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added comments about implementing os specific dbd files.

---
 configure/RULES.Db | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure/RULES.Db b/configure/RULES.Db
index 4524b7474..7f9838327 100644
--- a/configure/RULES.Db
+++ b/configure/RULES.Db
@@ -28,6 +28,21 @@ INSTALL_DBFLAGS += -I $(INSTALL_LOCATION)/db
 DBDFLAGS = $(USR_DBDFLAGS) -I . -I .. $(INSTALL_DBDFLAGS) $(RELEASE_DBDFLAGS)
 DBFLAGS = $($*_DBFLAGS) $(USR_DBFLAGS) -I. -I.. $(INSTALL_DBFLAGS) $(RELEASE_DBFLAGS)
 
+#####################################################
+# To allow os specific dbd files AND have the -j option work properly,
+# add the following lines to your ioc application Makefile
+#
+# # These lines may be committed to RULES.Db for a future base release.
+# CROSS_TARGET_OS_TYPES = $(sort $(foreach target,  \
+#     $(CROSS_COMPILER_TARGET_ARCHS),$(firstword $(subst -, ,$(target)))))
+# DBD += $(foreach type, $(CROSS_TARGET_OS_TYPES), $(DBD_$(type)))
+#
+# and then add something like the following os specific lines
+#
+# DBD_vxWorks += abcVx.dbd
+# DBD_RTEMS += abcRTEMS.dbd
+# DBD_solaris += abcSolaris.dbd
+#
 #####################################################  Targets
 
 # Following line added for backward compatibilty