Submitting arguments to rpmbuild

[Paul Howarth]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 3:03 PM -0800 12/1/05, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> 
>>I'm trying to build an rpm with a little variation.  The rpm in question
>>is audacity, whose start is shown at the end of this message.
>>
>>There is a line starting "%{!?_without_mp3:" which is evidently a
>>conditional, controlled by the macro _without_mp3.  How can I submit
>>this to rpmbuild?  Or does it have to be edited into the spec file?
>>
>>Rpmbuild seems to accept options intended for this purpose, since
>>"rpmbuild --help" returns the following text at the end:
>>
>>       Options implemented via popt alias/exec:
>>         --dbpath=DIRECTORY            use database in DIRECTORY
>>         --with=<option>               enable configure <option> for
>>       build
>>         --without=<option>            disable configure <option> for
>>       build
>>
>>But I haven't been able to get anything like this to work.
>>
>>Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> 
> I would guess that "--without=mp3" is what is expected.

Try "--without mp3" or "--with mp3" as required. I've never used it with 
the equals signs but the --help option does suggest it should work as 
Tony suggested too.

Paul.