Re: rpmbuild command line override spec file %define

["Christian Joensson" <christian joensson gmail com>]

On 5/22/06, Aaron Richton <richton jla rutgers edu> wrote:
> > the former, I need to --define 'build_ada 0' when I rpmbuild for
> > --target=sparc64 because I have no sparc64 capable Ada compiler
> > installed on my system.
>
> If you want to codify "sparc64 is bad for ada", try something like:
>
> # FIXME: somebody should make ada for sparcv9
> %ifarch sparc64
> %define build_ada 0
> %else
> %define build_ada 1
> %endif
>
> which may or may not get cumbersome depending on how many platforms
> do(n't) support ada. You can replace 0/1 with the examples from other
> replies to accept --without or what have you.

thanks for your reply, however, I wanted to override a %define in the
spec file, that was not possible, so, the --without change to the spec
file was to me a suitable little fix in the specfile  that I figured
was small enough (oneliner) that I could learn to like...

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Cheers,

/ChJ