Flags for building an rpm

[Marcus Meissner]

> > 
> > Unfortunately, my colleague is incommunicado for the next couple of 
> > weeks, and I cannot ask him how he built the rpm.  I added a patch to 
> > fix the problem I reported recently in menu.c.  Then, I built the rpm 
> > with the command:
> > 
> > # rpmbuild -ba --platform athlon wine-20040408-2muse.spec
> 
> My rpmbuild manpage says to use --target, while --platform is not
> documented.
> Else, looks good to me...
> 
> > 
> > Here is what I get:
> > 
> > 85910178 Jul 29 21:25 wine-20040408-2muse.athlon.rpm
> > 
> > This is significantly larger.  I looked at the contents and the problem 
> > seems to be mainly in /usr/lib/  All files are significantly larger.
> 
> I've noticed it also if I build with stabs+ usage. That's why there's a
> patch in the RH rpms which disables stabs+ detection (and shrinks the
> archive to ~10MB).
> 
> > 
> > What flags am I missing when I am building the rpm?
> 
> It's most probably a question of stabs+ usage. For some reason, it was
> disabled for the rpm your colleague did, and enabled for the one you
> did.

Or use strip --debug on the .so files...

its just the debuginfo that makes it that large.

Ciao, Marcus