Michel Salim wrote:
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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
>
Thanks to Michael and Mamoru -- should these be listed in our packaging
guidelines?
I'd really rather see something like your initial suggestion.
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Peter