Re: How to change the strip behaviuor

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Stephen Smoogen wrote:

> 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.
>  

Strip behavior (and all build root policy scripts) is configured in

> %__os_install_post    \
>    /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress \
>    /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip \
>    /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive \
>    /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note \
> %{nil}
>  
which is appended to %installl scriptlet. Redefine in /etc/rpm/macros or
~/.rpmmacros if necessary.

Hmmm, but something else is wrong if you have to mess with stripping
on "source only" packages. I'm not sure what "md5 checks" means.

73 de Jeff

> 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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