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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+
+# This is a testing scripts that tries to build vermont with all
+# avaiable options. Do not use this to build vermont if you want
+# to have a usable built of vermont.
+
+# Note: We have a lot of options for configuring vermont available.
+# This test builts will run for ages to complete all of them ...
+
+OptionList = [ 
+	'DEBUG', 
+	'DISABLE_MEMMANAGER', 
+	'IPFIXLOLIB_RAWDIR_SUPPORT', 
+	'SUPPORT_DTLS', 
+#	'SUPPORT_DTLS_OVER_SCTP', 
+	'SUPPORT_MYSQL', 
+	'SUPPORT_NETFLOWV9', 
+#	'SUPPORT_ORACLE', 
+	'SUPPORT_POSTGRESQL',
+	'SUPPORT_SCTP',
+	'USE_GSL',
+#	'USE_PCAPMMAP',
+#	'USE_PFRING',
+	'WITH_TESTS',
+	'WITH_TOOLS',
+	'SUPPORT_MONGO'
+]
+
+def rm_rf(d):
+	"""Recursively delete content of d. Used to clean the previous builts"""
+	for path in (os.path.join(d,f) for f in os.listdir(d)):
+		if os.path.isdir(path):
+			rm_rf(path)
+		else:
+			os.unlink(path)
+
+def do_build(optlist):
+	buildstring = "cmake ../ "
+	for i in optlist:
+		buildstring += i + " "
+	print "Trying to build vermont with options: \n\t",
+	print buildstring
+	rm_rf(".")
+	if os.system(buildstring) != 0:
+		print "Failed configuring vermont!"
+		sys.exit(-1)
+
+	if os.system("make") != 0:
+		print "Failed building vermont!"
+		sys.exit(-1)
+
+def build_all_option_list(optList):
+	build(list(), optList)	
+
+def build(fixed, rest):
+	if len(rest) == 0:
+		do_build(fixed)
+		return 
+
+	# build option list recursively
+	option = rest.pop(0)
+	
+	restOn = list(rest)
+	restOff = list(rest)
+	withOn = list(fixed)
+	withOff = list(fixed)
+
+	withOn.append("-D" + option + "=ON")
+	withOff.append("-D" + option + "=OFF")
+	
+	build(withOn, restOn)
+	build(withOff, restOff)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	import os
+	import sys
+
+	# we are working with rm -rf. Do not run this as root.
+	if os.geteuid()==0:
+		sys.exit("\nDo not run this script as root!!!");
+
+	# we need to clean a previous make cache. If we don't do this
+	# cmake will reuse the cache and does not create a new cache in 
+	# vermont/build/. But we don't want to do this automatically, so
+	# let the user decide if we wants to do this
+	if os.access("./CMakeCache.txt", os.R_OK):
+		print "Found a previous CMakeCache.txt. I cannot make the test builds while this cache is ",
+		print "resides in the vermont source directory. If you want to make the test builds, please",
+		print "remove the file CMakeCache.txt. Please note that you have to redo your insource built",
+		print "afterwards..."
+		sys.exit(-1)
+
+	print "Creating build directory ..."
+	if not os.access("./build/",  os.R_OK | os.W_OK):
+		os.makedirs("./build/")
+	os.chdir("./build/")
+	print "Starting build process ..."
+	build_all_option_list(OptionList)
+	pass