Re: error: Macro % has illegal name (%define) ?

[Patrick <rpm-list puzzled xs4all nl>]

Hi Marius,

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:09 +0300, Marius Feraru wrote:
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> > error: Macro % has illegal name (%define)
> 
> Not really a RPM issue, but a bash one (and a quite reiterated one on bash
> "forums", I may say). Let's rewrite your script:

Thanks for the tip. Clearly I used the wrong search terms on Google.

> #!/bin/bash
> cd ~/redhat/SPECS
> 
> # avoid word splitting on "space"
> IFS=$'\n'

Found this one in my Bash book. Will read up on it.

> # skip quotes, as popt (obviously) won't "dequote" arguments

Found docs about popt. More reading to do.

> BUILDOPTS_libsupertone='--define _smp_mflags -j1'
> 
> rpmbuild -ba --target=i386 libsupertone.spec ${BUILDOPTS_libsupertone}
> 
> # EOF
> 
> In the future, when you have bash troubles, try the "easy" debug way:
> add "-x" to the shellbang (i.e.: #!/bin/bash -x). It usually helps :)
> Try it on your script, you'll see how bash expands your variables.

Excellent suggestion. All makes sense now and the snippet works.
Many thanks for your help!

Regards,
Patrick