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