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From: Matthias Saou <matthias@egwn.net>
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Subject: Re: when building a rpm i386-redhat-linux- is appended to man page
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:25:24 +0200

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

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