[Rpm-maint] Using environment variables in spec files?

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jim Galarowicz wrote:

> On some systems this works and on others we get blanks ( for
> %{depend_prefix} ) where we expected to get the path contained in the
> OPENSS_PREFIX environment variable. Is this a valid approach? Does anyone
> have a better scheme for this?

Pass depend_prefix on the command line to rpmbuild:

    rpmbuild --define "depend_prefix $OPENSS_PREFIX" -ba dyninst.spec