Packages with optflags and/or debuginfo issues

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Tue Jan 30 14:31:34 UTC 2007


On Monday 29 January 2007 22:06, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Quite a few packages produce useless -debuginfos nowadays.  In addition to
> empty -debuginfos, a debuginfo package that contains some *.debug files but

What about -fomit-frame-pointer and -O3, that maybe breaks debuginfo, too:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-July/msg00712.html

> no sources is also quite likely not honoring $RPM_OPT_FLAGS, and if so,
> also very likely to have been built without compiler generated security

Do $RPM_OPT_FLAGS need to be used in LDFLAGS, too?

> (although they can obviously be introduced after reviews too).

What to do then? I once filled a bug about this for qemu and it was closed 
with WONTFIX:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208026

Regards,
Till






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