On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Paul Nasrat wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 10:09 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm experimenting with rebuilding "lftp" from the src rpm file, and > > i was curious to see the Makefile generated from the configure step in > > the spec file: > > > > %configure --with-modules --disable-static --with-ssl --with-debug > > > > i realize that rpmbuild doesn't have an option that lets me stop > > after the configure step without going on to the actual make. > > You are possibly confusing the overloading of % in the spec file. > > It is used as a section marker (%prep,%build,%install,%clean,%files,etc) > which the appropriate build sections corresponds to rpmbuild -bp, -bc > -bi, etc. You can thus stop at one of those stages > > %configure is a macro (rpm -E '%configure') used in the %build section, > so you can't just step to the stage. > > Just add "exit 1" between the configure and the make macros in %build, > then you can inspect and remove the terminating command actually, i knew most of the above, i was just whining about how it would have been nice if there had in fact been an actual, explicit configure stage associated with an rpmbuild option. darn. rday
