Bug 838328

Summary:	--macros not mentioned in the rpmbuild man page
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	teknopaul <teknopaul>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Fedora Packaging Toolset Team <packaging-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	17	CC:	eric, ffesti, packaging-team, pknirsch, pkovar, pmatilai, zach
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Description teknopaul 2012-07-08 13:08:39 UTC

Description of problem:
The --macros flag is not documented in man rpmbuild.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RPM version 4.9.1.3 

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man rpmbuild
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
incomplete docs


Expected results:
--macros gets mentioned, without it is not possible to build outside ~/rpmbuild

Additional info:
I understand that this might not be the perfect place to report this issue but www.rpm.org has a private bug trac system that the public are not allowed to enter bugs in.  RPM is obviously pretty core to Fedora.  I'll be happy to submit a doc patch if you can tell me where the code is.
BTW rpm and rpmbuild man pages have no BUGS section.

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2012-07-11 10:51:44 UTC

--macros is something you practically never want to mess with. The default location for builds has preciously little to do with --macros either: %_topdir defaults to ~/rpmbuild these days but its always been overridable by simply setting it in ~/.rpmmacros:
%_topdir /some/path

Or alternatively pass --define "_topdir /some/path" on the cli.

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