On Tuesday, 03 July 2007, at 11:54:03 (-0500),
Tim Mooney wrote:
> I need some macro-fu help. I want to (in a spec file)
>
> - test to see if a particular macro is defined.
> - if it's not, I would like to
> - source/load a file that has additional macro definitions, making
> them available in my spec file.
> - for extra credit, if the file doesn't exist, exit with an error.
>
>
> It looks like I can do the test part with something like
>
> %if %{undefined perl_sitelib}
%if %{?perl_sitelib:1}0
is probably more portable.
> but I'm unsure how to accomplish the "load additional macros from
> an external file" part. I would be using this with rpm 4.0.4 (from
> RHEL 2.1) all the way up to current rpm.
With RPM 4.0.4, I'm pretty sure the answer is "you can't."
Michael
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