Hi, On the fedora.us site there is a page about macros in spec files http://www.fedora.us/wiki/RPMMacros However there is no list of forbidden macros. I am currently using a Dag spec file in order to convert it to fedora conventions, and in this file there are macros which are commonly not used in fedora spec files: %{__rm}, %{__install}, %{__make}. I think that something should be said about these macros in the file. Maybe a clear statement could be something like "other macros are best avoided". And I believe %{_smp_mflags} should be added in the section Build flags macros Pat
