This is a timely question. I'm 'trying' to rebuild rpm 4.1 and now 4.2 with
--enable-debug. Not having much luck.
Can anyone offer any advice?
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From: Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: RPM Mailing List <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:56:25 +0100
Subject: How to enable and disable debug packages?
> Like I said earlier, I'm now looking into the "debuginfo" package
> mechanism of rpm/redhat-rpm-config. I think I'll have to ask an old
> question again in this context, i.e.:
>
> How do you enable and disable debug package build?
>
> I found a way of disabling them a long time ago, of course, which was
> just to insert
>
> %define debug_package %{nil}
>
> in the rpm spec or
>
> %debug_package %{nil}
>
> in /etc/rpm/macros.
>
> Now that I'm actually trying to build debuginfo packages, I'm no longer
> happy with that solution, however. Neither do I want to globally enable
> debuginfo, I think, as it just gets in the way for general rebuilds
> of freeware src.rpms etc, and also fails for far too many packages. What
> I'd really like, is to keep the mechanism off by default, but allow
> it to be re-enabled for on a package-by-package basis by including a
> %define in the .spec file, or a --define on the command line. The
> problem is, debug_package is not very easy to use that way, as it
> has very complex body including the full definition of the package.
> Also, after reading the Red Hat macro setup, I thought that
> %_enable_debug_packages might be used as a simple flag, but
> unsetting it appears to have no effect (i.e. debuginfo is still
> built, provided that %debug_package is set.)
>
> So is there a predefined way to enable/disable debuginfo build as
> mentioned above? Or do I have to introduce some additional macro
> logic of my own to be able to do this?
>
> - T
>
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