Dan Track writes:
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?
%{expand:%%define oracle_home %(echo $ORACLE_HOME)}
However, this is considered to be bad practice. RPM build specs should not
depend on the parent environment, because they won't be reproducible. The
correct way to do this is:
1) You should install Oracle via rpm. Create an rpm package for Oracle, if necessary
2) Then, your BuildRequires becomes simply "BuildRequires: oracle"3) Then, your %prep, %build, and %install sections would initialize ORACLE_HOME accordingly (use the same snippet in all three cases).
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