| Summary: | %configure does not accept additional arguments | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Roman C <info> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 24 | CC: | ignatenko, kardos.lubos, novyjindrich, packaging-team-maint, pknirsch, pmatilai |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2016-10-11 13:29:17 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Um, what exactly is it that you're trying to do that is not working?
I've yet to see a spec where %{configure} is used in place of %configure and a large percentage of them do pass options to it, such as
%configure --disable-static
As for the comment, it was true when written back in 1999 ... for a period of approximately three days. %configure has not been a parametric macro since then so %* etc dont even enter the picture.
That and couple of other ancient (and now invalid) comments removed now, thanks for pointing it out: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/e03de479bfd2e8759be9bb1019487a6371160f60 You are right. I thought it didn't work, but now I'm trying to reproduce it, and it works. Thanks. Thanks for confirming. And for pointing out the ancient misleading comment :) |
I am not deeply knowledgeable about rpm packaging, so I apologize if I misunderstand something, but this looks like a bug to me. In /usr/lib/rpm/macros, the comment for %configure says: # The configure macro should be invoked as %configure (rather than %{configure}) # because the rest of the arguments will be expanded using %*. Which seems to suggest that %configure was intended to accept additional arguments and expand them through %*. However, %* does not occur in the expansion, and the only way to pass the arguments is in fact to invoke it as %{configure} --with-something=something Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.27.fc24.x86_64