[Fedora-packaging] cmake rpm macro(s):

[Rex Dieter]

Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Appended is a first try at rpm macro'izing the the call to cmake per:
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/cmake
>>>
>>> I chose not to implement the out-of-tree style of build in the 
>>> PackagingDraft to keep things simple(r).
>>
>> Updated PackagingDrafts/cmake to include proposed macro.
>>
> 
> First off, your macro doesn't specify any source directory, which you 
> must.  That's actually good, because then you can do:
> 
> %cmake <path>
> 
> And it keeps the macro usage the same as the command usage.
> 
> I think you have to support out of tree builds as many projects actually 
> don't support in tree builds (specifically, paraview).  The question 
> then becomes sub-dir or parallel-dir?

Well, I wasn't aware of in-tree problems, so my first draft left out the 
details wrt out-of-tree builds.

Certainly the macros shouldn't touch which dir to use, leave that to 
users and specfiles.

-- Rex