Re: Macro %so has illegal name - why?

Toralf Lund <[email protected]> Fri, 23 May 2008 13:21:02 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Valery Reznic wrote:
>
> --- On Thu, 5/22/08, Toralf Lund <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Toralf Lund <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
>> To: "RPM Mailing List" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:30 AM
>> Just tried the following in an rpm spec file
>>
>> %define so .so
>>
>> When I tried building with this (rpmbuild -bb), I got
>>
>> error: Macro %so has illegal name (%define) [ ... ]
>>
>>     
> As long as I remember macro should be at least 3 character long.
> Why - I have no idea.
>   
Right. You know, when I checked some of the docs again after you said 
that, I found the following in /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.4.2/macros:

    Name may be composed of alphanumeric characters, and the character
    `_' and must be at least 3 characters in length.

Somehow I hadn't noticed this earlier...

Thanks,


- Toralf