Re: help loading additional macros from file

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Tuesday, 03 July 2007, at 11:54:03 (-0500),
Tim Mooney wrote:

>  I need some macro-fu help.  I want to (in a spec file)
> 
>  - test to see if a particular macro is defined.
>  - if it's not, I would like to
>  	- source/load a file that has additional macro definitions, making
>  	  them available in my spec file.
>  	- for extra credit, if the file doesn't exist, exit with an error.
> 
> 
>  It looks like I can do the test part with something like
> 
>  %if %{undefined perl_sitelib}

%if %{?perl_sitelib:1}0

is probably more portable.

>  but I'm unsure how to accomplish the "load additional macros from
>  an external file" part.  I would be using this with rpm 4.0.4 (from
>  RHEL 2.1) all the way up to current rpm.

With RPM 4.0.4, I'm pretty sure the answer is "you can't."

Michael

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