samba - Mar 2023 - How to build samba-debuginfo rpm from samaba source

Hi Samba team,

Is there a command or a way to build samba-debuginfo rpm from the samba source.

I have been through wiki.samba.org, but failed to find out.

Explored the Makefile targets, even there I did not find the make target to
build debuginfo package or RPM.

Thanks in advance for your help.

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Writing_a_Samba_VFS_Module -> this page
mentions to install samba-debuginfo RPM, so I am trying to find the way to build
that from samba source.

Regards,
Neelakantan K

On 01/03/2023 09:27, Neelakantan Kannappa (nkannapp) via samba
wrote:
> Hi Samba team,
> 
> Is there a command or a way to build samba-debuginfo rpm from the samba
source.
I think you may be asking the wrong question, or asking in the wrong place.
Samba does not produce any packages (rpm, deb etc) it just produces a 
tarball that can be compiled (by default into /usr/local/samba) and, if 
I remember correctly, you have to turn on the developer options at 
configure to get debug symbols.

If you require instructions on how to build RPM's from the Samba code, 
then I suggest you ask your distro.

Having said all that, why do you need them ? Perhaps if you explain why, 
we may be able to help in another way.
> 
> I have been through wiki.samba.org, but failed to find out.
> 
> Explored the Makefile targets, even there I did not find the make target to
build debuginfo package or RPM.
Samba uses WAF to build.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Writing_a_Samba_VFS_Module -> this page
mentions to install samba-debuginfo RPM, so I am trying to find the way to build
that from samba source.
> 
> Regards,
> Neelakantan K
Rowland

On 3/1/23 5:27 AM, Neelakantan Kannappa (nkannapp) via samba
wrote:
> Hi Samba team,
> 
> Is there a command or a way to build samba-debuginfo rpm from the samba
source.
> 
> I have been through wiki.samba.org, but failed to find out.
> 
> Explored the Makefile targets, even there I did not find the make target to
build debuginfo package or RPM.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Writing_a_Samba_VFS_Module -> this page
mentions to install samba-debuginfo RPM, so I am trying to find the way to build
that from samba source.
> 
> Regards,
> Neelakantan K
The debuginfo packages are not a product of a Samba build scripts. It is 
built by rpmbuild (in modern distros by default) when you build an RPM. 
If you build Samba outside rpmbuild with debug information, that 
information remains attached to the resulting binaries. debuginfo 
packages are a a way to extract that debug information from the binaries 
and optionally install them in case of debugging a problem instead of 
having large binaries with all that information attached.

If you use a Samba package from the distribution the debuginfo package 
should be on the repository.