Re: Modify %cmake_install behavior?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:58 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:48 AM Richard Shaw
> <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > Currently if in source builds are set to true, %cmake_install appends a
>  "." current directory.
>  >
>  > I'm working on building Avidemux on RPM Fusion and it requires multiple
>  cmake builds and fakeroot installs which means I have to allow "in source
>  builds" to stop the new behavior even though I'm manually performing
>  multiple out-of-source builds.
>  >
>  > During %install I would much prefer to do something likes:
>  > %cmake_install <dir1>
>  > %cmake_install <dir2>
>  > %cmake_install <dir3>...
>  >
>  > But that's currently not possible because it assumes "." is
> appropriate.
>  I'd really rather not have to pushd into each directory as that's just ugly
>  :)
>  >
>  > Is there a way to modify the behavior of the macro to not append "."?
>  >
>
>  You could possibly change %_vpath_builddir for each of them. You can
>  do that for each %cmake, %cmake_build, and %cmake_install invocation
>  without turning off out of source builds.
>  
For now I reverted back to %make_install using -C <dir> with the caveat
that if %cmake_... changes to Ninja it will break.

I don't suppose the macro could be made to have optional arguments?

Pseudo-code:
if $arg; use as <dir>; otherwise use "."

Thanks,
Richard