On Friday 21 March 2003 04:25 pm, flacycads wrote:
> Greg,
> Does the #Macros section in your .rpmrc file substitute for the .rpmmacros
> file mentioned in the Mandrake rpm how-to?   

No, you still need that.  the #Macros section refers the macro files in 
/usr/lib/rpm.  The .rpmmacros files only sets variables recuired by the 
macros.

> CyberCFO sent me your file 

LOL, I am CyberCFO.

> when I was trying to rebuild XFree86 for
> athlon-xp, but I could never get it to work with it, or any other srpm as
> user,  and always had to use --target athlon, and the regular rpmrc file
> to rebuild srpms as root, which I know isn't the preferred method. I have 
> all the correct directories in /home as required, but I must be missing
> something.
>
the .rpmrc file should build athlon by default.  Were you still building as 
root even though you had the .rpmrc and .rpmmacros files defined for the 
user?


-- 
Greg

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