rpm macro magic help

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Sandro Mani <manisandro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do some rpm macro magic:
>
> %define do_build() \
> mkdir build_win%{1}_%{2}; \
> (cd build_win%{1}_%{2}; \
> %{mingw%{1}_qmake_%{2}} 'PREFIX=%{mingw%{1}_prefix}' 'TARGET=quazip-%{2}'
> ../libquazip; \
> %{mingw%{1}_make} %{?_smp_mflags}; \
> )\
> %{nil}

According to the guidelines you should use %global instead of %define.

> Problem: when I call i.e. "%do_build 32 qt4", %{mingw%{1}_qmake_%{2}} gets
> expanded to %{mingw32_qmake_qt4} but that macro does then not get expanded
> to /usr/bin/mingw32-qmake-qt4. So basically it ends up trying to call the
> command %{mingw32_qmake_qt4} which does not exist.
>
> So, is there anyway to use macros inside macros and have the resulting thing
> correctly expanded? :)

Have you tried the %{expand:...} macro ? I've seen it in the docs but
never actually used it.

Something like %{expand:%%{mingw%{1}_qmake_%{2}}} I suppose.

Dridi

> Thanks!
> Sandro
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