On 03/22/2012 05:29 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Hi,
One other thing I noticed is the use of `make install-strip`. RPM
will strip the debugging symbols for you and create a debuginfo
package, which might be useful someday if^H^Hwhen it crashes, so you
should probably just `make install` here.
Thanks very much for the e-mail! Then, I guess my question is: the
binaries that are installed when I download and install a Fedora RPM
all (or at least, most do) appear to be stripped. I thought that meant
that the install step has to have things stripped.
No - When building a Fedora rpm, binaries must not be stripped.
In autoconf terms, inside of rpm.specs, packages must be installed by
"make install" and must not use "make install-strip".
How exactly does
this happen then?
Somewhat oversimplyfied, Fedora's rpm-build is equipped with a mechanism
which extracts the binaries' debug information from non-stripped
binaries into *-debuginfo.rpm.
I.e. packagers are supposed to build with debug-info built-in
(non-stripped), rpm then later strips automatically.
Ralf
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