RFC: spec preprocessor

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:36:51AM +0200, Artur Frysiak wrote:
> W liście z nie, 18-05-2003, godz. 23:44, Jakub Bogusz pisze: 
> > Lack of nested comments was more disturbing.
> > 
> Nasted comments ? You mean: nasted %ifs ? 
> This is posible with rpm 4.3-snap.

I saw it in spec - that's the reason I wrote "was", not "is" :)
(but I haven't installed this version yet)

> > Maybe implementing %ifdef and %ifndef (to be used instead of
> > 0%{?...:1} and 0%{!?...:1}) would be worth... but it would make many
> > specs incompatible with rpm from Ra :/
> 
> %ifdef and %ifndef .... hmm, look in rpm-list archive for jbj
> proposition about implementing it as macro (with sample implementation).

Is the archive accessible to non-members?

>From http://www.rpm.org/ I've found only:

https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
"The current archive is only available to the list members."

http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/rpm-list/index.html
"Page Not Found (404)"


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