--- On Fri, 5/23/08, Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Macro %so has illegal name - why? > To: "RPM Package Manager" <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 2:21 PM > Valery Reznic wrote: > > > > --- 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) [ ... > ] > >> > >> > > As long as I remember macro should be at least 3 > character long. > > Why - I have no idea. > > > Right. You know, when I checked some of the docs again > after you said > that, I found the following in > /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.4.2/macros: > > Name may be composed of alphanumeric characters, and > the character > `_' and must be at least 3 characters in length. > > Somehow I hadn't noticed this earlier... I hadn't noticed that too before I was bitten by it :) Valery. > > Thanks, > > > - 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
