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Created attachment 866048[details]
Spec file for replication
Description of problem:
rpmbuild ignores comment characters in front of %defines. This results in unexpected, and unwanted, behavior
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):rpm-4.11.1-9.el7.x86_64
How reproducible:100%
Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpmbuild -bs <attached specfile>
2.
3.
Actual results:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-example-1-1.sl7.src.rpm
Expected results:
example-1-1.sl7.src.rpm
Additional info:
That macros are expanded everywhere is intentional behavior, macros have no notion of comments. Clearly the behavior does break the principle of least surprise in context of spec files, but there are packages and other systems that rely on the behavior, see eg bug 594672. We cant just go changing it.
Created attachment 866048 [details] Spec file for replication Description of problem: rpmbuild ignores comment characters in front of %defines. This results in unexpected, and unwanted, behavior Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):rpm-4.11.1-9.el7.x86_64 How reproducible:100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpmbuild -bs <attached specfile> 2. 3. Actual results: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-example-1-1.sl7.src.rpm Expected results: example-1-1.sl7.src.rpm Additional info: