On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > RPM *.spec lets me include the summary from an external file: > > %description > %(cat SUMMARY) > > can I do something similar with setup.hint/ldesc? > I don't want to duplicate the same information twice.
No, you can't. However, you can create a "setup.hint.in" with such syntax and process it to create the actual "setup.hint" during your package build process. I'm assuming you'd like to package some application which contains the description in a file that's changed relatively often. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/