Macro %so has illegal name - why?

[Toralf Lund]

Just tried the following in an rpm spec file

%define so .so

When I tried building with this (rpmbuild -bb), I got

error: Macro %so has illegal name (%define)

Why? I mean, obviously rpmbuild didn't like my macro name, so I can just
change it to something else, but what exactly is wrong with it? What are
the rules? I this documented anywhere?

- Toralf

[Valery Reznic]

Subject: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:30 AM
Just tried the following in an rpm spec file
%define so .so
When I tried building with this (rpmbuild -bb), I got
error: Macro %so has illegal name (%define)
Why? I mean, obviously rpmbuild didn't like my macro
name, so I can just
change it to something else, but what exactly is wrong with
it? What are
the rules? I this documented anywhere?

As long as I remember macro should be at least 3 character long.
Why - I have no idea.

Valery.

- Toralf
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[Toralf Lund]

Post by Valery Reznic

Subject: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:30 AM
Just tried the following in an rpm spec file
%define so .so
When I tried building with this (rpmbuild -bb), I got
error: Macro %so has illegal name (%define) [ ... ]

As long as I remember macro should be at least 3 character long.
Why - I have no idea.

Right. You know, when I checked some of the docs again after you said
that, I found the following in /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.4.2/macros:

Name may be composed of alphanumeric characters, and the character
`_' and must be at least 3 characters in length.

Somehow I hadn't noticed this earlier...

Thanks,


- Toralf

[Valery Reznic]

Subject: Re: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 2:21 PM

--- On Thu, 5/22/08, Toralf Lund

Subject: Macro %so has illegal name - why?
To: "RPM Mailing List"
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:30 AM
Just tried the following in an rpm spec file
%define so .so
When I tried building with this (rpmbuild -bb), I

got

error: Macro %so has illegal name (%define) [ ...

]

As long as I remember macro should be at least 3

character long.

Why - I have no idea.

Right. You know, when I checked some of the docs again
after you said
that, I found the following in
Name may be composed of alphanumeric characters, and
the character
`_' and must be at least 3 characters in length.
Somehow I hadn't noticed this earlier...

I hadn't noticed that too before I was bitten by it :)

Valery.

Thanks,
- Toralf
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[Jeff Johnson]

Post by Valery Reznic
As long as I remember macro should be at least 3 character long.
Why - I have no idea.

<3 character names are reserved so that rpm has an internal macro name
space that
cannot be changed in spec files.

73 de Jeff