How to use %debug_package while using rpmbuild?

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user2372226 picture user2372226 · Aug 26, 2013 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

Linux version 2.6.18-131.el5 gcc version 4.1.2 RPM version 4.4.2.3

I use the following command to build packages: $ sudo rpmbuild -ba xxx.spec

I thought that the debuginfo package should be built by default, but only get the xxx.src.rpm and xxx.x86_64.rpm, with no debuginfo package.

Then I add a line in my xxx.spec, "#%debug_package":

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Then the debug package is built! But I thought that a line with a '#' in the front is considered as comment! How does this work?

I'm totally confused.

Answer

Aaron D. Marasco picture Aaron D. Marasco · Aug 26, 2013

This is one of the most annoying "features" in rpm and it gets people all the time. The # is only commenting out the first line of a multi-line macro. The proper way to comment it out would be 

#%%debug_package

The first % escapes the second; the result after macro becomes what you wanted.

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