Re: Macro %so has illegal name - why?

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Valery Reznic wrote:
> --- On Thu, 5/22/08, Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com> wrote:
>
>   
> > From: Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>
> > Subject: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
> > To: "RPM Mailing List" <rpm-list redhat com>
> > Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:30 AM
> > Just tried the following in an rpm spec file
> >
> > %define so .so
> >
> > When I tried building with this (rpmbuild -bb), I got
> >
> > error: Macro %so has illegal name (%define) [ ... ]
> >
> >     
> As long as I remember macro should be at least 3 character long.
> Why - I have no idea.
>   
Right. You know, when I checked some of the docs again after you said 
that, I found the following in /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.4.2/macros:

   Name may be composed of alphanumeric characters, and the character
   `_' and must be at least 3 characters in length.

Somehow I hadn't noticed this earlier...

Thanks,


- Toralf