# [PATCH] Add a RPMBUILD make variable

1 messages from 2005-07-15 to 2005-07-15. Participants: Eric W. Biederman.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1250

## Eric W. Biederman, 2005-07-15 01:20

Subject: [PATCH] Add a RPMBUILD make variable
Message-ID: <m13bqgyiee.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m13bqgyiee.fsf%40ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com

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This allows RPMBUILD to be overridden for people with
old versions of rpm or people who want to pass rpmbuild extra options.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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 Makefile |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ bin=$(prefix)/bin
 CC=gcc
 AR=ar
 INSTALL=install
+RPMBUILD=rpmbuild
 
 #
 # sparse is architecture-neutral, which means that we need to tell it
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ dist: git-core.spec git-tar-tree
 	gzip -9 $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
 
 rpm: dist
-	rpmbuild -ta git-core-$(GIT_VERSION).tar.gz
+	$(RPMBUILD) -ta git-core-$(GIT_VERSION).tar.gz
 
 test: all
 	$(MAKE) -C t/ all

```