2015-10-10 22:25 GMT+02:00 Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hello all, > > Over the last few weeks, I've been working on a number of packages that use > CMake for the build system for various distros, and I've noticed something > rather peculiar. Of all the distros I've built packages for (Fedora/CentOS, > openSUSE, Mageia, Debian, and Ubuntu), only Fedora/CentOS does not > automatically do CMake building in a subdirectory such that the build > artifacts don't mix in with the source tree. Essentially, the %cmake macro > doesn't enforce builds are out-of-tree. > > Is there a particular reason for this? > According Rex who implemented the %cmake macro https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-March/msg00044.html I must admit that I agree that out-of-tree builds is not very useful in RPM packaging case, as you always scratch the build directory. Implementing out-of-tree builds who result in having to move between directories during package building which could error-prone. Regards, H. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct