rpm build will remove .symtab/.strtab section?

I’m trying to build a binary with .symtab and .strtab section to trace functions. I’m using “make && make install”, the binary is ok. But when I use “make rpm” and install rpm package, both of .symtab and .strtab section are gone which is weired. I track the rpm build log, and saw those:

libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c mybinary /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/mybinary.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/sbin/mybinary

and here, I executed it manually again, the .symtab section exists.

extracting debug info from /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/mybinary.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/sbin/mybinary

After this step, the .symtab section is gone, I guess there’s something wrong here. But I don’t know why. Please help.

Solution

rpmbuild automatically strip debuging info and place it in -debug subpackage. If you want to preserve it for some reason follow https://imvoid.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/stripping-and-stopping-stripping-of-binaries-in-rpm-build/

Answered By — msuchy

Answer Checked By — Terry (FixIt Volunteer)

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