Hi I hope someone can help. Basically I want to access an environment variable and place it in my macro in my spec file. If I try to define a macro like the following: %define oracle_home $ORACLE_HOME and then try to build it "rpmbuild -ba perl-DBD-Oracle" I get the following error: error: line 18: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': BuildRequires: $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so On line 18 I have the following: BuildRequires: %{oracle_home}/lib/libclntsh.so Any ideas how I can resolve this? Thanks in advance Dan