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

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 12:31 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> > 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

Sure, looks sensible to me. I think the CONFIGURE_TOP stuff is quite
old, it may have been a different scenario back when it was invented.
macro looks like a good way to do it now.
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