On 3/5/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dan Track writes:
> Hi
>
> I hope someone can help. Basically I want to access an environment
> variable and place it in my macro in my spec file.
>
> If I try to define a macro like the following:
>
> %define oracle_home $ORACLE_HOME
>
> and then try to build it "rpmbuild -ba perl-DBD-Oracle"
>
> I get the following error:
> error: line 18: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_'
> or '/': BuildRequires: $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so
>
> On line 18 I have the following:
> BuildRequires: %{oracle_home}/lib/libclntsh.so
>
> Any ideas how I can resolve this?
%{expand:%%define oracle_home %(echo $ORACLE_HOME)}
However, this is considered to be bad practice. RPM build specs should not
depend on the parent environment, because they won't be reproducible. The
correct way to do this is:
1) You should install Oracle via rpm. Create an rpm package for Oracle, if
necessary
2) Then, your BuildRequires becomes simply "BuildRequires: oracle"
3) Then, your %prep, %build, and %install sections would initialize
ORACLE_HOME accordingly (use the same snippet in all three cases).
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Hi
Thanks for the tip, it helped. Sadly I can't make the oracle install
into an rpm as the local DBA is a bit conservative in his approach and
doesn't want to do something different from his normal installation
method.
I having a problem though. If I include the following
BuildRequires: %{oracle_home}/lib/libclntsh.so.10.1
Then try to build it I get:
rpmbuild -ba perl-DBD-Oracle.spec
error: Failed build dependencies:
/opt/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/lib/libclntsh.so is needed by
perl-DBD-Oracle-1.16-4
although the file is there
ls -l /opt/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/lib/libclntsh.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 17 Jul 20 2006
/opt/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/lib/libclntsh.so -> libclntsh.so.10.1
Any ideas why this would be happening?
Thanks in advance
Dan
