%configure assuming in-source-tree builds

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Michel Salim wrote, at 06/23/2008 02:13 AM +9:00:
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> 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 ..
> 
> and then have %configure use the value of that instead of './' when
> calling the actual configure script?
> 
> Thanks,

xscreensaver uses:

%build
archdir=`./config.guess`
mkdir $archdir
cd $archdir
.....
ln -s ../configure .
%configure $CONFIG_OPTS
rm -f configure

make %{?_smp_mflags}

Regards,
Mamoru