On 09/06/18 13:13, Phil Perry wrote: > On 08/06/18 22:54, lejeczek wrote: >> >> >> On 08/06/18 19:38, Phil Perry wrote: >>> On 08/06/18 15:54, lejeczek wrote: >>>> hi >>>> >>>> how do you pass vars to rpmbuild for definition? eg >>>> >>>> rpmbuild --define \'"${_definition2}"\' >>>> >>>> I've been fiddling with ways to escape, but none is fricking working.. >>>> I mean, rpmbuild rushes to work(no errors nor failure) so if you try >>>> just the command line do not believe it, because later as it >>>> executes %if you will see process does not see these definitions. >>>> >>>> many thanks, L >>> >>> I'm not sure what you are trying to define above. >>> >>> Normal convention where one wishes to define _foobar as "foo" for >>> example would be: >>> >>> rpmbuild --define '_foobar foo' >>> >>> or generically >>> >>> rpmbuild --define 'SomeVariable SomeValue' >>> >>> Hope that helps >> >> Try to pass bash var to rpmbuild, eg: >> >> $ _def1="_me no" >> $ rpmbuild --define ${_def1} >> >> > > I assume you are doing this in a bash script? > > ${_def1} may need to be quoted as it contains a space. > > But for that I would do the following to make it more readable: > > ME="no" > rpmbuild --define '_me ${ME}' > > > or if ${ME} contains spaces: > > rpmbuild --define '_me "${ME}"' > > none of of these work for me, like I said earlier I fiddle a bit with it. I was hoping someone could confirm this and then maybe it's a bug?