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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RPM generation

From: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:53:19 +0200
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:13:09PM +0200, Dario Lombardo wrote:
> I was just pointing out that sometimes (like the openSUSE %cmake
> macro) there is the general assumption that the build dir is under the
> source dir. This assumption can be found in wireshark/CMakeLists.txt,
> under the rpm-package target, where _git_description is set based on
> "git describe" output. This works if and only if the build dir is
> under the source dir and not if it's somewhere else.

This seems to limit the rpm-package target to git trees, source tarballs
seems unsupported, is that intentional? The autotools config did not
have this limitation from what I can tell.
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Kind regards,
Peter Wu
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