On 08/06/2015 08:37 AM, Paul Millar wrote:
> Hi Pat,
>
> On 06/08/15 15:01, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>> This looks like the same behavior noted in:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594672
>
> Yes, I think this is the underlying cause.
>
> This "well known" feature of RPM (that macros are expanded, even when 
> commented out) wasn't known to me.  It is also inconsistently 
> documented; c.f.
>     http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-specref.html
> and
>     http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ch-rpm-specref.html
>
> [Unfortunately, it seems nearly impossible to report this 
> inconsistency to whoever maintains the Max RPM documentation, so the 
> incorrect documentation will likely linger, *sigh*]
>
> That all said, given how macros are expanded, I think it's fair to say 
> that the previous successful builds worked-by-accident, and there is 
> no regression.
>
> Sorry for the noise.
>
> Paul.

No worries, I didn't know about this "well known" behavior until it bit 
me too....

Pat

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