On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 21:46 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > We unanimously agreed to this, and we decided to take this even > further to generally discourage use of %define in favour of %global. I > created a proposal for the guidelines at > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/global_preferred_over_define I agree with this in the case of large macro expansions or cases where nesting might occur. Incidentally, there's a very limited stack size on macro expansions (8192 bytes currently) that is an annoyance when you've got deeply nested macros. I'd love to see that limitation go away :-) Jon. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
