Submitting arguments to rpmbuild

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:03 PM -0800 12/1/05, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>I'm trying to build an rpm with a little variation.  The rpm in question
>is audacity, whose start is shown at the end of this message.
>
>There is a line starting "%{!?_without_mp3:" which is evidently a
>conditional, controlled by the macro _without_mp3.  How can I submit
>this to rpmbuild?  Or does it have to be edited into the spec file?
>
>Rpmbuild seems to accept options intended for this purpose, since
>"rpmbuild --help" returns the following text at the end:
>
>        Options implemented via popt alias/exec:
>          --dbpath=DIRECTORY            use database in DIRECTORY
>          --with=<option>               enable configure <option> for
>        build
>          --without=<option>            disable configure <option> for
>        build
>
>But I haven't been able to get anything like this to work.
>
>Any help will be appreciated.

I would guess that "--without=mp3" is what is expected.
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