On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:13:06 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
Hi all,
Some upstream developers recommend that their software (thinking of LLVM
and PLT Scheme, but there must be others) *not* be configured and built
at the top-level source directory (typically recommending using build/,
object/ or some such).
When this is needed, currently the Fedora packager has to revert to
calling the configure script directly, foregoing the %configure macro,
and copying as much of the configure settings by hand. Would it be a
desirable feature to, say, be able to declare
%define configure_relative_path ..
and then have %configure use the value of that instead of './' when
calling the actual configure script?
Try this in your spec (substitute SOMEPATH appropriately):
%global configure %(rpm --eval %%configure|sed -e
's!./configure!SOMEPATH/configure!')
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