Odd debugedit message: -b arg has to be either the same length as -d arg, or more than 1 char longer

[Dan Horák]

On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:01:00 +0100
David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> I'm seeing this message:
> 
> extracting debug info
> from /home/dhowells/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/cross-gcc-4.9.0-2.fc21.x86_64/usr/lib/gcc/hppa-linux-gnu/4.9.0/libcloog-isl.so.4 /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit:
> -b arg has to be either the same length as -d arg, or more than 1
> char longer
> 
> but only on some machines.  Anyone know what it portends?
> 
> 	>rpm -qf /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit
> 	rpm-build-4.11.2-2.fc20.x86_64
> 
> on both machines I've tried it on.

as a user or root? IIRC building as root leads to strange errors
sometimes


		Dan