[CMake] CPack Stripping Debug

[Eric Noulard]

2008/8/1 Yuri V. Timenkov <ytimenkov at parallels.com>:
> On Thursday 31 July 2008 22:47:10 Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> Paul Hatfield wrote:
>> > When compiling a binary with CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE as RelWithDebInfo, I
>> > verify that the binary has debug symbols, but when I generate an rpm
>> > using Cpack the debug symbols are lost.  What's causing this?
>>
>> rpm automatically runs strip on executables.  It is not cmake doing this
>> but rather the rpm tools.
> Not exactly... RPM strips executables (at least versions I'm working with -
> 4.4) as part of post-install action. spec generated in CPackRPM.cmake doesn't
> contain %install section, so rpm doesn't strip binaries and create debug
> package. Look in rpmbuild and cpack logs.

Are you sure about that?
Some other user seems to face the same issue with current CPackRPM:
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7435

It may be rpm version _and_ distro dependent, I'll try to check it
as soon as possible and add an eventual CPACK_RPM_xxx option var
in order to control this.

>
> Also, you may check for CPACK_STRIP_FILES cpack variable.

I wasn't aware of this one.

An easy check in order to see if rpmbuild does the "extra" stripping
would be to use the ZIP CPack generator and check it's content.

-- 
Erk