Trivial macro not expanded in kernel spec file %build

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Panu Matilainen
<pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
> Hard to say without the entire spec, but one typical cause of "sometimes
> works sometimes doesn't" issues with macros are %define's inside macro
> {} blocks, which "work" until the first parametrized macro is called,
> and after that it doesn't (due to an ancient flaw in the macro engine).
> Replacing the %define inside {} with %global helps in this case.

Ouch! that sounds extra painful.

After a few more attempts I found that the macro was being initialized
per arch, and my arch wasn't setting it properly.

Didn't spot any 'undefined macro' warning in the output, but then
again I only tried with one '-v' param.

thanks!



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