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On 12/24/2015 11:10 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Lately I've been working on an EL6 branch of epel-rpm-macros with
> the goal of removing the need for some of the %ifdefs and line
> noise and such required if you want to have one spec which builds
> on Fedora and EL6.
>
> Right now it simply enables %license in the %files section (mapped
> to %doc as the current workaround does). Feel free to suggest
> additional macros and I'll add them to the todo list and implement
> them as time and the nature of rpm allows.
%{__global_ldflags} is another macro that it's not available in EPEL6.
Please, add it if possible.
>
> Since having this package in the buildroot has the capacity to
> break things, I've done a complete rebuild with the macros in
> place, and of course that turned up unrelated issues. You can find
> the complete results in the message I sent to this list earlier
> today.
>
> Now, the problem:
>
> When this macro package is present in the buildroot, a spec using
> %define (not %global as recommended) for a macro and using that
> macro in the %files section will break. Generally the macro just
> ends up undefined when the %files section. Why? Deep RPM macro
> magic, I guess. Which is why we have long said that you should use
> %global unless you have a specific reason not to do so.
>
> This breakage troubles me, and I think it would be a deal breaker
> if we didn't already prohibit use of %define in the guidelines.
> There aren't many packages which have problems, though, and my
> testing hasn't turned up any problems that can't be attributed to
> the macros.
>
> Below is a list of packages which use %define in a way that causes
> build failures with the macros package. Fixing them up is
> completely trivial. I am happy to just take care of them, but I'll
> try to contact the maintainers first.
>
> - J<
>
> electronics-menu-1.0-8.el6.src.rpm chitlesh
> epylog-1.0.7-1.el6.src.rpm smoote, icon geos-3.3.2-1.el6.src.rpm
> devrim itcl-3.4-6.el6.src.rpm orion, krege itk-3.4-5.el6.src.rpm
> orion, krege iwidgets-4.0.2-4.el6.src.rpm orion, krege
> plplot-5.9.7-3.el6.1.src.rpm orion
> postgresql-plruby-0.5.3-4.el6.src.rpm devrim, hhorak, praiskup,
> jmlich python-clientform-0.2.7-6.el6.src.rpm lmacken
> python-ruledispatch-0.5a0-0.15.svnr2306.el6.src.rpm lmacken
> python-tgext-crud-0.3.11-1.el6.src.rpm lmacken
> python-tgfastdata-0.9a6-10.el6.src.rpm lmacken
> python-TurboMail-3.0-1.el6.src.rpm lmacken, fschwarz
> retrace-server-1.12-2.el6.src.rpm mtoman
> ruby-augeas-0.4.1-1.el6.src.rpm lutter, skottler, domcleal
> rubygem-sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4-5.el6.src.rpm kanarip, stahnma
> ruby-ldap-0.9.7-10.el6.src.rpm stahnma, stevetraylen
> ruby-libvirt-0.5.2-2.el6.src.rpm stahnma, clalance
> ruby-mysql-2.8.2-1.el6.src.rpm orion, kanarip
> ruby-ncurses-1.3.1-2.el6.src.rpm isimluk
> ruby-shadow-1.4.1-13.el6.src.rpm stahnma, tmz, skottler
> snake-0.11-0.20.el6.src.rpm jlaska, wwoods
> tcllib-1.14-1.el6.src.rpm krege tcl-mysqltcl-3.05-8.el6.src.rpm
> renep tcl-tcludp-1.0.8-3.el6.src.rpm spot
> tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.10-1.el6.src.rpm spot
> tesseract-3.04.00-1.el6.src.rpm karlik, smani
> tkcon-2.5-4.el6.src.rpm sergiopr xpa-2.1.12-1.el6.src.rpm sergiopr
>
> (I see tktable has been fixed in git already, and blt was fixed
> immediately after I filed a bugzilla ticket. Thanks!)
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