Poppler's spec does this: %build pushd %{name}-%{version} # despair sed -i s/qt3/qt-3.3/g configure %configure \ --disable-static \ --enable-cairo-output \ --enable-poppler-qt \ --enable-poppler-qt4 \ --enable-xpdf-headers make %{?_smp_mflags} popd Is this not good enough for some reason? On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Stepan Kasal <skasal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list