On 5 Jan 2010, at 14:33, Valery Reznic wrote: >> I've got a macros file that I'd like rpmbuild to use. It >> seems that rpmbuild 4.4.2.3 is ignoring the --macros switch. > Not an answer to your questions, but... > Rpmbuild supposed to be tool, that reliable convert srpm to binary rpm. > If your .rpmmacros contains not only stuff like rpmbild directory, but something essential to rpm build, than no one will be able to build this rpm without mymacros. > > Don't like as a good idea (unless you are trying to secure your job this way :) > > So if the content of the mymacros is (relative) unimportant - directories, etc - I suggest to put it into ~/.rpmmacros. > If it's important - use make file (or whatever build system you use) to combine your spec with mymacros. > Something like this in Makefile: > spec_file: mymacros spec_file.in > rm $@ > cat mymacros spec_file.in > $@ > > Where spec-file.in is your original specfile Ah thanks - that's useful to know. The RPM I'm building at the moment exists only to require a number of other RPMs - so I think it's going to be fine - but in the future I'll make sure that I'm not hiding anything important in my local macros. Thanks again! -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
