On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:10:44 +0200, Nikolay wrote: > Hi > > There are a lot of generally useful macros in Fedora, which are not > described in the Fedora wiki: %__awk, %__bzip2, %__cat, %__chgrp, > %__chmod, %__chown, %__cp, %__cpio, %__file, %__gpg, %__grep, > %__gzip, %__id, %__install, %__ln_s, %__lzma, %__xz, %__make, > %__mkdir, %__mkdir_p, %__mv, %__patch, %__perl, %__pgp, %__python, > %__rm, %__rsh, %__sed, %__ssh, %__tar, %__unzip, etc. > > These macros are defined in /usr/lib/rpm/macros. > > Some maintainers use them, some do not. > > What is recommended way? Not to use them. Unless you ensure that the entire build framework uses them, too (which means, for example, that you have "configure" scripts and Makefiles also run what those macros expand to). Or else it would run whatever it finds in $PATH. And if that is fine, why not rely on $PATH also in the spec file? Btw, the set of macros is incomplete, and some of the macros don't even include an absolute path, e.g. $ rpm --eval %__awk gawk $ rpm --eval %__ln_s ln -s -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
