An easy way to redefine configure?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/04/2009 02:01 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 13:42 +0200, Mattias Ellert wrote:
>>> What's the correct way to do this?
>>
>> %global dconfigure %(rpm -E %%configure | sed 's!./configure!../configure!g')
>> %dconfigure
>
> This works, but isn't it bad style to call rpm from within a spec
> file..?
Correct - This is not allowed in Fedora.

In occasions like yours, I normally use a manually expanded ../configure 
....

IMO, it's much cleaner and less error prone than to mess around with 
%configure.

Ralf