Bug 190285 - rpmbuild ignore sometime remark symbol
Summary: rpmbuild ignore sometime remark symbol
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Nasrat
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 190286 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-30 10:54 UTC by Frank Büttner
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-04-30 22:30:28 UTC
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Demo file for the problem (214 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2006-04-30 10:54 UTC, Frank Büttner 		no flags Details
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Description Frank Büttner 2006-04-30 10:54:39 UTC 
Description of problem:
The commend mark # is sometimes ignored

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-build-4.4.1-23

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run rpmbuild -bb bug.spec
  
Actual results:
The variable bugtext contains dontShowThis

Expected results:
The variable contains Showthis

Additional info:
Comment 1 Frank Büttner 2006-04-30 10:54:39 UTC 
Created attachment 128409 [details]
Demo file for the problem
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2006-04-30 22:30:28 UTC 
Macros are expanded whereever they are encountered, in comments, within strings, everywhere.

Change
    #%define bugtext dontShowThis
to
    #%%define bugtext dontShowThis
to prevent the macro from being expanded and defining "dontShowThis"
Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2006-04-30 22:32:48 UTC 
*** Bug 190286 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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