Macros in %files

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:50:04 -0700 (MST), Orion Poplawski wrote:

> 
> On Thu, November 13, 2008 10:36 pm, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> >
> > Changing to %{!?python_sitearch: %global python_....}
> > works?
> 
> That's the ticket.  Some rpm change I guess I didn't quite pick up on...

Alternatively, simply override it without any nested macros:

%define python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")

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Nested macro usage like  %{!?foo: %define foo ...}  is error-prone anyway.
It quickly leads to confusing scenarios in spec files where you check for
%!?foo in several places, but that would fail if the redefinition were
global implicitly.