Anyone able to get their .rpmrc to work correctly for defining new macros?

$ rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.0.2-6x


I want to define a new macro for which java compiler I use in rpms, but it seems
like rpm just ignores all entries in my ~/.rpmrc file.

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