Prevent strip when building an RPM package
 

Hi all,

I'm packaging some software into an rpm package. It consists of binaries and libraries. I'm building the binaries with a certain debug level enabled but when i run rpmbuild on my .spec file it strips the binaries and removes all debugging information and symbols, decreasing the size of the binaries. How do i prevent this????

I've tried commenting out the lines to strip ELF binaries in:
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-redhat & /usr/lib/rpm/brp-redhat

However when i run 'rpmbuild -ba <name of spec file>.spec' i can see that it still does strip! How can i disable this?

Please let me know. Thanks!

Something with the "debug_package" define?

I figured it out, don't worry about it!

Hi Sid,

I'm running into the same problem, what solution did you find? How to avoid the stripping?

Help will be highly welcomed :)

Thanks,
Atqasap

Yeah, post your solution.

Please post what you did. I'm having this problem too.

possible solution, ie. works for me
 

I also had this problem building rpm's with binaries that I did not want stripped. I solved the problem by adding the following line to the top of my spec file.

# Turn off strip'ng of binaries
%global __strip /bin/true

Thanks a lot, i'll check this out!