TRAIN_00963.eml

NoneNone> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Saou [mailto:matthias@egwn.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 5:25 PM
> To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net
> Subject: Re: when building a rpm i386-redhat-linux- is appended to man
> page
> 
> 
> Once upon a time, Harig, wrote :
> 
> > > 
> > > The workaround is to pass an extra argument to configure 
> as follows :
> > > 
> > > %configure --program-prefix=%{?_program_prefix:%{_program_prefix}}
> > > 
> > 
> > This works when you are defining a switch that %configure
> > does not already define, but how can we override an
> > existing switch?
> 
> Well, %configure doesn't define "--program-prefix=", so that's why it
> works. Maybe you thought that was an example, but no, it's 
> the exact syntax
> to use as a workaround ;-)
> 
> Matthias
> 

Actually, I was hoping that you could answer the question "how can we 
override an existing switch?"  For example, %configure uses the command-
line switch '--prefix'.  How can we override that value?

  %configure ???

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