How to get the %configure macro to run "../configure"?

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 09:54 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> How to get the %configure macro to run "../configure"?
>>
>> %global _configure ../configure works on my machine but not the koji
>> builders.
>
> I was trying to do this (for hv3...) and couldn't figure out a way.
> Mandriva can do it, because its %configure script includes a
> CONFIGURE_TOP variable:
>
> # This is an improved version of %configure (from PLD team).
> %configure \
>  %before_configure ; \
>  %{?!_disable_libtoolize:%{?__libtoolize_configure:%{__libtoolize_configure};}} \
>  [ -f $CONFIGURE_TOP/configure.in -o -f $CONFIGURE_TOP/configure.ac ] && \
>  CONFIGURE_XPATH="--x-includes=%{_prefix}/include --x-libraries=%{_prefix}/%{_lib}" \
>  $CONFIGURE_TOP/configure %{_target_platform} \\\
>
> (etc etc etc)
>
> might be nice to have that in Fedora. Obviously, if CONFIGURE_TOP is not
> specified it defaults to ./ , and if you want to run a configure from
> some other dir, you define CONFIGURE_TOP in the spec.

Would it not be more appropriate to do this as a macro? It seems like
CONFIGURE_TOP is an environment variable.

rpm/macros:
%_configure ./configure
%configure \
  %{_configure} ...

And then

%define _configure ../configure
cd build
%configure --enable-other-stuff

in the package.

--
Dan