Bug 99253

Summary: %define interpreted inside comment lines
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: NN Poster <nnposter>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description NN Poster 2003-07-16 17:54:59 UTC 
Description of problem:
%define directives in RPM spec file comment lines are interpreted.
This contradicts the documentation, which specifies that 
"Any text following the comment character will be ignored by RPM."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.0.4-7x.20

Spec file:
	%define foo xxx
	#%define foo yyy
	%prep
	echo %{foo}

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create sample spec file
2. Run rpm -bp

    
Actual results:
yyy


Expected results:
xxx
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-07-16 18:06:45 UTC 
The documentation is wrong.
Comment 2 NN Poster 2003-07-19 19:28:04 UTC 
Aah, so it is a "feature".