[Bug 483434] Review Request: argtable2 - A library for parsing GNU style command line arguments

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--- Comment #19 from Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>  2009-06-08 06:50:57 EDT ---
Using macros for commands, which are supposed to be located in $PATH, doesn't
add any value.

For example, a "configure" script would fail, if it searched for "cp" in $PATH,
but an RPM build environment redefined %__cp to something outside $PATH. Same
applies to lots of other tools. Their macro values expand to absolute path, but
none of these paths are passed to the configure scripts, make, or other build
frameworks. Even with major redefinition of macro values, you could not fully
customise the rpmbuild without modifying the spec/src.rpm.

Often, macro usage adds further inconsistencies even directly in the spec
files:

> %{__rm} -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

> find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} \;

Once %{__rm}, below plain "rm".  "find" is macro-less.  /sbin/ldconfig in the
scriptlets is macro-less, too.

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