rpm spec file %define

Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com
Sun Jan 10 21:57:21 UTC 2016


> That approach sounds too complicated. %setup is a macro in the %prep
> section, where you can run more commands to _set up_ your builddir. The
> most obvious choice IMO would be to _rename_ the versioned dir to something
> unique. You could also avoid the second invocation of %setup and extract
> Source1 yourself using "tar". The parameters of the second %setup call
> don't define builddir anymore, but only extract into the builddir from
> the first invocation.

Hi Michael,
Yeah you are right, having the original folder name is not relevant.
I removed the macro and used a wildcard instead.

For the academic sake only, does a facility exist to defer evaluation
for this use case?

Thanks,
jlc


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