On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 13:28, Panu Matilainen wrote: [...]
If (almost) everybody is repeating these steps then why are they not macroized into something like %cmake_setup, %cmake_build and %cmake_install? Okay, it requires somebody to actually do it and sanction but...
Taking the idea a bit further, if everything were to follow such %foo_setup, %foo_build, %foo_install then at least in simple and/or well-behaved cases you could do the whole setup-build-install thing with one spec line wher just the type varies:
%autobuild foo
Now *that* is a really cool idea.
Regards, Dominik