Sander Steffann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It turns out that preventing RH9 from building the debuginfo package also
> prevented it from stripping the binaries. This was what caused the big
> difference in filesize. I have rebuilt the RPMs for RH9 and put them on
> http://opensource.nederland.net/.
>
> I had to make a small modification to the specfile (again) because it seems
> that macro's work differently for each RPM / RedHat version. There have been
> no other changes to the sources or specfile, so the end-result is the same.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience I caused by disabling the debuginfo package!
> Sander.
Is this also related to the fact that gdb on libraries of RH9.0 don't
complain about the debugging info ?
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
