Re: Macro %so has illegal name - why?

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

--- On Fri, 5/23/08, Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com> wrote:

> From: Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>
> Subject: Re: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
> To: "RPM Package Manager" <rpm-list redhat com>
> Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 2:21 PM
> 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...
I hadn't noticed that too before I was bitten by it :)

Valery.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> - Toralf
> 
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