On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 12:47 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> 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.
yes.
> 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?
It takes a number of options look in /usr/lib/rpm/macros under %
configure for some details of what you can do.
> For a utility as important as rpmbuild, the state of the documentation
> is truly dismal.
I don't think anyone really disagrees. If you'd like to help, I'm sure
it would be appreciated.
-sv
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