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)

Why? I mean, obviously rpmbuild didn't like my macro name, so I can just
change it to something else, but what exactly is wrong with it? What are
the rules? I this documented anywhere?


- Toralf

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--- On Thu, 5/22/08, Toralf Lund <toralf@procaptura.com> wrote:

> From: Toralf Lund <toralf@procaptura.com>
> Subject: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
> To: "RPM Mailing List" <rpm-list@redhat.com>
> 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)
>
> Why? I mean, obviously rpmbuild didn't like my macro
> name, so I can just
> change it to something else, but what exactly is wrong with
> it? What are
> the rules? I this documented anywhere?
As long as I remember macro should be at least 3 character long.
Why - I have no idea.

Valery.

>
> - Toralf
>
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Valery Reznic wrote:


--- On Thu, 5/22/08, Toralf Lund <toralf@procaptura.com> wrote:



From: Toralf Lund <toralf@procaptura.com>
Subject: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
To: "RPM Mailing List" <rpm-list@redhat.com>
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,


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On May 22, 2008, at 4:37 AM, Valery Reznic wrote:




As long as I remember macro should be at least 3 character long.
Why - I have no idea.



<3 character names are reserved so that rpm has an internal macro name
space that

cannot be changed in spec files.

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--- On Fri, 5/23/08, Toralf Lund <toralf@procaptura.com> wrote:

> From: Toralf Lund <toralf@procaptura.com>
> Subject: Re: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
> To: "RPM Package Manager" <rpm-list@redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 2:21 PM
> Valery Reznic wrote:
> >
> > --- On Thu, 5/22/08, Toralf Lund
> <toralf@procaptura.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> From: Toralf Lund <toralf@procaptura.com>
> >> Subject: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
> >> To: "RPM Mailing List"
> <rpm-list@redhat.com>
> >> 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...
I hadn't noticed that too before I was bitten by it

Valery.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> - Toralf
>
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