Re: Questions about %define

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:15:00AM +0200, Han wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I tried the following statement in my specfile:
> 
>   %define optflags %optflags" -g3"
> 
> And a lot of things that look like it. But it won't work. Since rpm
> treads it recursively. Ok I could do it like:
> 
>   make CFLAGS="%opflags -g3" CXXFLAGS="%opflags -g3"
> 
> But that is not really what I want, for practical reasons.

What do you want?

Do you wish to add -g3 to existing optflags from a specfile? Try

	%{expand: %%define optflags %{optflags} -g3}
> 
> Now that were at it can anybody confirm that "#" are ignored in the
> define section. So a line with
> 
>   #%define optflags -g3
> 
> Is still read.
> 

Macros have no context, are active in shell '#' comments. Do
	#%%define ...
to disable.

73 de Jeff

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