define versus global !?

hi, sorry for cross posting but may be someone on the packaging/rpm side can help me. i'm getting really angry about the debug packages:-) does anybody who can tell me the real reason of why: ------------------------------------ %define __debug_install_post %{mingw_debug_install_post} ------------------------------------ works why ------------------------------------ %global __debug_install_post %{mingw_debug_install_post} ------------------------------------ not? imho if i can know the answer to this question i can solve my only remaining issue with generated spec file for mingw. if why this in the spec file working: ------------------------------------ %define __debug_install_post %{mingw_debug_install_post} ------------------------------------ while this not: test: ------------------------------------ echo "%define __debug_install_post %{mingw_debug_install_post}" ------------------------------------ and in the spec file: ------------------------------------ %global test sh /tmp/test %{expand:%(%{test})} ------------------------------------ ??? the same thing is working for all other macro except for __debug_install_post. thanks in advance. regards. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"