Re: Another dereference question

[Frank Cusack <fcusack fcusack com>]

On September 7, 2005 10:59:03 AM -0400 "Steven W. Orr" <steveo syslang net> wrote:
> I have the following snippet:
>
> Name: guard_stap
> Version: 1.0
> Release: 1
> Prefix: /usr/local/guardium
> %define InstRoot %{Prefix}/%{Name}-%{Version}-%{Release}
>
> Then later on I have these refs:
>
> %files
> %defattr(-,root,root)
> %dir /usr/
> %dir /usr/local/
> %dir /usr/local/guardium/
> %dir %{InstRoot}/
...
> error: File must begin with "/": %{Prefix}/%{Name}-%{Version}-%{Release}/
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is this not allowed in the %files section?

The 'Prefix:' tag does not define %prefix.  %name, %version, %release
are special that way, other tags are not.  You can just define it.  In
the olden days (circa 3.0) before those tags were special, this was common:

%define name foo
%define version 1.0
%define release 1
Name: %name
Version: %version
Release: %release

-frank