Please allow me to vent my irritation about the state of spec file
documentation.
%Flame on:
Even after looking over postings on the web and Eric Foster-Johnson's
long book about RPM, but I still can't find definitive answers to two
simple questions (among others):
1. What is the value of the macro "%{name}"? I guess it's the
value of the "Name:" entry in the spec file, but since I can't
find this stated anywhere, it's only a guess.
2. %configure appears to take an argument, at least it has one in
the spec file I am trying to understand and modify. What does
the argument do?
For a utility as important as rpmbuild, the state of the documentation
is truly dismal.
%Flame off
Thanks - jon
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