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#50 main Packaging Guidelines - update of global
Closed: Fixed Opened by mmaslano.

Closed: Fixed
Reopen Issue

In Packaging Guidelines is mentioned that we should use global instead of define, wherever possible. But in guidelines is not mentioned this important sentence:
"Note that %define and %global differ in more ways than just scope: the body of a %define'd macro is lazily expanded (ie when used), but the body of %global is expanded at definition time. It's possible to use %%-escaping to force lazy expansion of %global." [1]

With this information missing I broke perl build, because we had there complicated filtering of requires with lot of defines/globals. Please, mention this sentence in guidelines [2].

[1] http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Macros#BuiltinMacros
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#.25global_preferred_over_.25define

Approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:1)

Announce text:

In the "%global preferred over %define" section of the Packaging Guidelines, a clarification note was added:

Note that %define and %global differ in more ways than just scope: the body of a %define'd macro is lazily expanded (ie when used), but the body of %global is expanded at definition time. It's possible to use %%-escaping to force lazy expansion of %global.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#.25global_preferred_over_.25define

Closing as this has been added.

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