Re: Remove requirement to use macros for paths

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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:13:22PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> If people have additional reasons that macroizing all directory paths make
> sense, please let us know (here or as a comment in the ticket).  Then FPC
> can decide whether to relax this rule or update the rule with information
> about why we have it in place.

The point of the macros is to ensure consistent use of paths between 
the configure, install, and packaging stages so that builds don't 
break if there are changes in any part of the chain.

%configure uses those macros.  If spec files were allowed to not use 
the macros, then changes to %configure would break the spec files.  So 
if you are going to remove the requirement for the macros in spec 
files, then the behavior of %configure should not be reliant on the 
macros either.  In fact, all use of such macros should be removed (not 
disallowed, but removed from use in the standard build macros).
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