In regard to: Re: help loading additional macros from file, Paul Nasrat...:
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:54 -0500, Tim Mooney wrote:All- 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}Does something like this work for you: %{!?foo: %{expand: %%include /path/to/foo}} Where /path/to/foo contains a bunch of %global foo bar type definitions, you can include from the build root or a SourceN too
Yup, works perfectly, even on RHEL 2.1. Thanks for the tip! Tim -- Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
