Re: Corrupted *.so files

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Aug 7, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Erik Engstrom wrote:

> Hello -
>
> I'm trying to build an RPM on a RedHat 9 system.
>
> I have a bunch of files in a tar file (mylib.tgz) including  
> multiple *.so files.  Some, but not all, of the *.so files get  
> corrupted during the %install section.  When I do an 'll', the size  
> of the file has decreased.
>
> Any idea what causes this or how I can fix it?  I pasted a portion  
> of my spec file below.
>
> Erik
>
>
>
> IMPORTANT PARTS OF MY SPEC FILE:
> define __os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
> %prep
> %setup
> %build
> %install
> mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/lib
> cp -pr %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/mylib.tgz $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/ 
> usr/local/lib
> cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/lib
> tar -xvzf mylib.tgz
> rm mylib.tgz

Are you trying to produce -debuginfo packages? If so, debugedit will  
effectively strip ELF
libraries.

Verify what is happening by running readelf -a on some *.so file  
before and after,
and then diff the output. The term "corruption" is perhaps way too  
loosely applied here ;-)

There's no other mechanism I can think of, very few rpm scripts  
change the contents of
files within $RPM_BUILD_ROOT.

73 de Jeff