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| author | Russell Greene <russell@churchillnavigation.com> | 2021-07-26 18:31:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Russell Greene <russell@churchillnavigation.com> | 2021-07-29 17:38:56 (GMT) |
| commit | 008d55df7677ec69254cd480329dd713d103b20f (patch) | |
| tree | fb9a90125979542a573bc1258a99a0fc72ad2e11 /Help/cpack_gen | |
| parent | 6c01bbe180df8771fa1e93776f0b716ac146218f (diff) | |
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CPack/DEB+RPM: Update documentation on debug symbol package creation
Update documentation to elaborate on the behavior between `.ddeb` creation,
CPACK_STRIP_FILES, and if the files are actually stripped.
Closes: #22438
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/cpack_gen/rpm.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst b/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst index d8d53ec..c0d9c3d 100644 --- a/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst +++ b/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst @@ -652,9 +652,18 @@ Dbgsym packaging has its own set of variables: .. note:: + Setting this also strips the ELF files in the generated non-dbgsym package, + which results in debuginfo only being available in the dbgsym package. + +.. note:: + Binaries must contain debug symbols before packaging so use either ``Debug`` or ``RelWithDebInfo`` for :variable:`CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE` variable value. + Additionally, if :variable:`CPACK_STRIP_FILES` is set, the files will be stripped before + they get to the DEB generator, so will not contain debug symbols and + a dbgsym package will not get built. Do not use with :variable:`CPACK_STRIP_FILES`. + Building Debian packages on Windows ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ diff --git a/Help/cpack_gen/rpm.rst b/Help/cpack_gen/rpm.rst index f6274f9..823594a 100644 --- a/Help/cpack_gen/rpm.rst +++ b/Help/cpack_gen/rpm.rst @@ -840,6 +840,10 @@ Debuginfo RPM packaging has its own set of variables: Binaries must contain debug symbols before packaging so use either ``Debug`` or ``RelWithDebInfo`` for :variable:`CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE` variable value. + Additionally, if :variable:`CPACK_STRIP_FILES` is set, the files will be stripped before + they get to the RPM generator, so will not contain debug symbols and + a debuginfo package will not get built. Do not use with :variable:`CPACK_STRIP_FILES`. + .. note:: Packages generated from packages without binary files, with binary files but |