On Tuesday 25 November 2003 07:56 pm, Sander Steffann wrote: > It turns out that preventing RH9 from building the debuginfo package also > prevented it from stripping the binaries.
Ah, ok. > This was what caused the big > difference in filesize. I have rebuilt the RPMs for RH9 and put them on > http://opensource.nederland.net/. > I had to make a small modification to the specfile (again) because it seems > that macro's work differently for each RPM / RedHat version. There have > been no other changes to the sources or specfile, so the end-result is the > same. Ooo... yet more macro differences. Saturday I'll need to put some time into understanding how to make a singular set... > Sorry for the inconvenience I caused by disabling the debuginfo package! > Sander. Not a big problem. I'll pull down the new packages tomorrow afternoon; I was going to be off, but will have to come in for a couple of hours. So I'll transfer them across then. Many thanks! -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster