[Fedora-packaging] dont strip comments.

[Matt Sellers]

Hi Everybody,

I am trying to build a package that does not strip comments from the
binary.

example ( working ) :

readelf -p .comment /usr/lib64/libnss_dns.so

String dump of section '.comment':
  [     1]  GCC: (GNU) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)
  [    2e]  GCC: (GNU) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)
  [    5b]  GCC: (GNU) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)
  [    88]  GCC: (GNU) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)
  [    b5]  GCC: (GNU) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)
  [    e2]  GCC: (GNU) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)
  [   10f]  GCC: (GNU) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)
  [   13c]  GCC: (GNU) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)


The binaries that I build with rpmbuild see to be stripped:

readelf -p .comment /usr/local/lib64/testlib.so
readelf: Warning: Section '.comment' was not dumped because it does not
exist!


I can see that the comments are there before the binary is stripped for
packing.   My goal is to have a package stripped of debug symbols but keep
the .comment section intact.

This seems to be performed by the script in /usr/lib/rpm/find-debug.sh using
"eu-strip", and while hacking this script is easy, I would like to enable
this functionality in a more sane fashion if possible.

Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated!

Thank You,
Matt
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