Usage of %{__macros} in our .specs?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Dec 17 23:05:50 UTC 2008


Martin Sourada wrote:
> I've been told, by an upstream developer of one of the packages I
> maintain, that I/we should use e.g. %{__make} instead of make in
> our .spec files in order to have our packages more compatible/portable.

We normally don't use these macros in Fedora, they are completely
unnecessary. They are not forbidden, but in the interest of readability,
please don't use them.

        Kevin Kofler




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