[Fedora-packaging] define versus global !?

[Farkas Levente]

On 06/28/2011 02:08 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:58 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> does anybody who can tell me the real reason of why:
>> ------------------------------------
>> %define __debug_install_post %{mingw_debug_install_post}
>> ------------------------------------
>> works why
>> ------------------------------------
>> %global __debug_install_post %{mingw_debug_install_post}
>> ------------------------------------
>> not? 
> 
> Did you check:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#.25global_preferred_over_.25define
> 
> There are some explanations there.

yes but still don't know why can't be used at toplevel and why can't be
generated by script.

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