Am 24.12.2015 um 22:01 schrieb Jason L Tibbitts III:
To satisfy my curiosity, I grepped the convenient tarball of specfiles (http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz) for lines matching "(?<!%)%define" (%define but not %%define). To my surprise, there were more than 1900 hits. Here's a complete (long) list. I don't think there's much point in doing anything about the vast majority of these, but if you're in cleaning up your packages then why not? Also, feel free to let me know if any of these are false positives. (They may be due to %define in the changelog or in a "comment", which is also something that should be fixed.) And if you're using %define because you actually need one of the peculiar behaviors it exhibits, please let me know because I'd like to see an actual example of that. (Own goal notice: I have a few packages on this list. Off to fix them up now.) libsvm (dchen, besser82)
All %define changed to %global in recent commit.
NLopt (besser82)
This spec-file uses %global, but in one special case: I use %define for nested macro-expansion ---> %define lc_name %(echo ${%{name},,}) lc_name would be empty during parsing the spec-file, when declaring with %global…
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