How do I build Apcupsd for platform xxx?
The apcupsd spec file contains defines to build for several platforms: RedHat 7.x (rh7), RedHat 8.0 (rh8), RedHat 9 (rh9), Fedora Core (fedora_core), RedHat Enterprise Linux and clones (rhel3 and rhel4), SuSE 9 & 10 (suse), and Mandrake (mdk). The package build is controlled by a define set at the beginning of the file. These defines basically just control the dependency information that gets coded into the finished rpm package. So while you could technically build a package without defining a platform, or with an incorrect platform, and have it install and run it would not contain correct dependency information for the rpm database. The platform define may be edited in the spec file directly (by default all defines are set to 0 or “not set”).
