rpm macro magic help

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:40:46 +0100, Sandro Mani wrote:

> 
> On 02.11.2013 18:18, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sandro Mani wrote:
> >> %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}
> > Ewww!
> >
> > Sorry to rain on your parade, but are you sure this (and with the fix for
> > the nested expansion, it becomes even more ugly) is compatible with the
> > "spec files must be legible" packaging guideline?
> >
> That is a valid point. I don't know what is better, 

Well, a Shell Function would be more readable, for example. It would
accept normal arguments to fill in variables -- instead of global RPM
macros, which are substituted in the entire spec file.