[CentOS] rpmbuild --define | some rpm sorcerer around?

Fri Jun 8 21:54:25 UTC 2018
lejeczek <peljasz at yahoo.co.uk>


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}


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