Re: help loading additional macros from file

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: Re: help loading additional macros from file, Paul Nasrat...:

> On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:54 -0500, Tim Mooney wrote:
> > All-
> >
> > 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}
>
> Does something like this work for you:
>
> %{!?foo: %{expand: %%include /path/to/foo}}
>
> Where /path/to/foo contains a bunch of %global foo bar type definitions,
> you can include from the build root or a SourceN too

Yup, works perfectly, even on RHEL 2.1.

Thanks for the tip!

Tim
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