Re: Building a kernel "--without debuginfo" is kind of broken
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
I got a 160MB kernel package and discovered that the kernel and
modules contained debug info. This seems to fix it, does anyone
see a problem with it?
make -s mrproper
cp configs/$Config .config
+ %if !%{with_debuginfo}
+ perl -p -i -e 's/^CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y$/# CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set/'
.config
+ %endif
Arch=`head -1 .config | cut -b 3-`
echo USING ARCH=$Arch
I believe at one point in the past, debuginfo was still getting
stripped, just not packaged, with that option. Then things changed
around a bit, and with that option, stripping didn't happen. The above
seems like a sane remedy to me.
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Jarod Wilson
jwilson(a)redhat.com