Generate debuginfo RPMS

[Panu Matilainen]

On 03/02/2012 08:02 AM, Gianluca Varenni wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a problem generating debuginfo RPMs. I have two very similar spec files, using the same SOURCES. One generates the debuginfo package, one doesn't. The different is in practice only in the %prep section:
>
> NODEBUGINFO:
> %prep
> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> cd $RPM_BUILD_DIR
> rm -rf api
> tar -xf $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/tcapi.tar
> cd api
> /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
>
> DEBUGINFO
> %prep
> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> %setup -q -n api
>
>
> It looks like the symbols are extracted only when using the %setup directory.
>
> I guess it's something really obvious, but I have no idea what.

At least there's %buildsubdir macro which the debuginfo creation relies 
on - it gets set automatically from %setup, otherwise not. There might 
be other issues as well.

If using %setup works, why would you want to do it manually? :)

	- Panu -