Ok, I found rpm-debuginfo.....rpm and it install find. When I try to use it
for my -lrpm I get tons of linker errors. I know I must be doing something wrong.
So can anyone give me the quick story on how to use?
Thanks
Jim
---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Jim Peden" <jimpeden@xxxxxxx>
To: RPM Package Manager <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:55:34 -0700
Subject: Re: How to enable and disable debug packages?
> 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?
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> 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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