Re: How to change the strip behaviuor

[Stephen Smoogen <smoogen lanl gov>]

Is there a way to turn off brp-strip altogether? I have to make source 
only packages and it causes some apps to not work because they do md5 
checks of themselves.

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Enrico Scholz wrote:

>Lapo.Pasqui@marconi.com ("Lapo Pasqui") writes:
>
>> I'm trying to build a few RPM of cross-compiled packages, and therefore
>> I'm using a cross-compiler suite inside the RPM building progress.
>> What I've noticed is that RPM run strip on the files generated by the
>> «make install» processs and there is no way to tell it to use my own
>> version of strip (namely powerpc-linux-strip).
>> ...
>> What else can I do?
>
>binutils can be built do support multiple targets, so you can use
>the normal 'split' for powerpc binaries also. You have just to add
>'--enable-targets=powerpc-unknown-linux' to binutils's ./configure.
>
>Alternatively, you can create a 'strip' symlink to 'powerpc-linux-strip' in
>a special directory and put this directory on top of $PATH before you call
>'rpmbuild'.
>
>
>
>Enrico
>
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