Bug 235194
| Summary: | %configure sets too many parameters of configure | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Stepan Kasal <kasal> |
| Component: | redhat-rpm-config | Assignee: | Jon Masters <jcm> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | pmatilai |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-08-20 06:04:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Yes, the number of parameters used by %configure can be shortened. What is there is known to work woth existing (and busted) builds in packaging. But feel free to change whatever you want. The default in rpm should not be changed, there is already provision for per-vendor (and per-system and per-monkey) redefinitions. WONTFIX Yup, redhat-rpm-config is the more appropriate component in Fedora space. I'm not sure this needs to be changed at the moment - can I get an actual example of a package where this is needed? Please re-open this bug if needed. We don't really officially support cross-compilation AFAIK, but I would be very interested in helping towards useful goals like that, given specific needs. Jon. |
The expansion of %configure contains this extraordinarily long command: ./configure --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --targe t=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info I believe it can be shortened. For example, --host and --target default to --build, so we can leave them out. If a spec file needs to cross-compile, it can call %configure --host=something which is IMHO better than redefining internal macros %{_host} or %{_host_cpu}. Similarily, we should leave out --exec-prefix, --bindir, etc. If necessary, they can be added on the %configure command line. (OTOH, --build, --prefix, and --sysconfdir are examples of parameters which should stay, because the GNU default value is not what we need.)