On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 6:43 AM Michal Schorm <msch...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 12:35 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 6:20 AM Michal Schorm <msch...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 5:54 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:12 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > You are not supposed to use %__cmake_builddir.
> > > >
> > > > It is not documented, and eventually will be removed. So don't rely on
> > > > it. If you want to change the build directory, set %_vpath_builddir
> > > > instead.
> > >
> > > Well, just make it documented ?
> > >
> >
> > The %_vpath_builddir macro is *already* documented:
> > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/vpath/
>
> But it doesn't do what we need.
> This %_vpath_builddir macro gives a path to the defined builddir.
>
> While %__cmake_builddir macro gives a path to the *actual* directory
> that was used as a builddir.
> Which is a huge difference, especially, when we talk about unifying
> SPECfiles for F31, F32 and F33.
>
> I see the macro defined as:
> %__cmake_builddir
> %{!?__cmake_in_source_build:%{_vpath_builddir}}%{?__cmake_in_source_build:.}
> This very line will either be in the
> "/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.cmake" from the
> "cmake-rpm-macros.noarch" package, or in every SPECfile that needs
> this macro.
>
> Why can't it be part of the standard CMake macros set, given that it
> does a different thing than %_vpath_builddir ?
>

I don't want to document something that I don't want to guarantee as
an interface. That knob will eventually be removed (probably in a
couple of Fedora releases). When I do that, %_vpath_builddir will
always directly map to the build directory passed to CMake.


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