Hello, On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:39:49AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: >> 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 > I'd really rather see something like [this] suggestion. Agreed. Filed as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/458644 [This is suitable to be submitted upstream, but rpm.org does not have a bug tracker, it features only lists, and I did not care to subscribe before cc'ing this mail, so I guess my chanced to get heared there are low. They read fedora bugzilla, though. ;-) ] Stepan Kasal -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
