Query: %cmake not doing out-of-tree builds?

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/10/2015 08:03 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Haïkel <hguemar at fedoraproject.org
> <mailto:hguemar at fedoraproject.org>>wrote:
>     If you want my opinion, implementing a cmake template in rpmdev-tools
>     with out-of-tree build support would be a better alternative.
>
>
> ​Actually, I think all our rpmdevtools templates need some work.

Indeed.
  ​
>
> It would be good if we had templates that put things in place and
> implemented the best practices we use today by default. Currently,
> rpmdevtools seems to be stuck in RPM 4.8 or something like that in terms
> of defaults. We don't use %make_build, %{buildroot} is not the default,
> we don't generate Python specs in compliance with our own guidelines,
> and we don't have templates for CMake, Gradle, PHP (composer), among
> many others.

FWIW - you can pass -m to rpmdev-newspec to get %{buildroot}.  That 
probably should be the default, but...


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