--- On Thu, 5/22/08, Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Macro %so has illegal name - why? > To: "RPM Mailing List" <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:30 AM > Just tried the following in an rpm spec file > > %define so .so > > When I tried building with this (rpmbuild -bb), I got > > error: Macro %so has illegal name (%define) > > Why? I mean, obviously rpmbuild didn't like my macro > name, so I can just > change it to something else, but what exactly is wrong with > it? What are > the rules? I this documented anywhere? As long as I remember macro should be at least 3 character long. Why - I have no idea. Valery. > > - Toralf > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
