passing macros into mock

Tim Jackson lists at timj.co.uk
Fri May 5 10:53:22 UTC 2006


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Tim Jackson wrote:
>> Is there any way (not in the live buildsys, but locally for testing
>> purposes) to pass a macro that isn't normally defined into a mock build
>> environment? I was hoping to do something like:
>>
>> mock --define "something 123" blah.src.rpm
>>
>> I had a search around but couldn't find any obvious answers. Any easy
>> way short of rebuilding the SRPM outside the mock environment with the
>> necessary macro defined?
> 
> Put
> %define something 123
> at the top of the specfile?

Sorry, I thought it was implicit but perhaps I should have added 
"...without rebuilding the SRPM". Like when you do "rpmbuild --define 
'foo bar' something.src.rpm".

Tim




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