Passing parameters from %prep to %build

[Valery Reznic]

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> From: Eran Ben Natan <eranb at celltick.com>
>To: Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com>; General discussion about the RPM package manager <rpm-list at lists.rpm.org> 
>Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:14 AM
>Subject: RE: Passing parameters from %prep to %build
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>Thanks, Valery.
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>There's nothing wrong with saving to file, and this is what I'm doing.
>It just seems to me that passing parameters between spec part should be trivial, I can't figure out it is not working.
%prep and %build run in different scripts, so passing info between them while possible is not that easy (if you not use files)

Valery


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>Subject: Re: Passing parameters from %prep to %build
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>> From: Eran Ben Natan <eranb at celltick.com>
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>>Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 10:37 AM
>>Subject: Passing parameters from %prep to %build
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>>Hi,
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>>I have the following problem: In the %prep, I run a command that returns a value.
>>I want to be able to use this value in the %build.
>>I was not able to do it with macros, because %global gets its value on init, and %declare is executed when called.
>>I also wasn't able to use bash parameters because they are not shared between %prep and %build.
>>I have 2 workarounds: Do all in %prep, or save the vale to a file. I'm not comfortable with any of these workarounds.
>>This seems to be a simple task. Am I missing something?
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>Do everything is %prep is ugly, IMO, bur what wrong with saving value in the file?
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>Valery.
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>>Thanks, Eran.
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