[Fedora-packaging] define versus global !?

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Tue Jun 28 12:08:28 UTC 2011


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.

Best regards,
Pierre


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