----- Original Message ----- > > I believe at one time it was possible to tell RPM to omit the symbol table > > from stripping, but it seems this is no longer the case. Other > > distributions > > suffer in the same way (I've observed it on Gentoo as well). > > Surely we just need to revert whatever was introduced in 1.7.80 to > "helpfully" strip it
It's nothing to do with OpenJDK or even the packaging of OpenJDK specifically, but something that distros do for all packages. > and also put 'jmap' at least and perhaps 'jstack' back > into the non-devel RPM, which if I'm not mistaken was also a change about > the same time. Jmap in particular is frequently used in production to > measure health of a JVM and jstack to capture vital information in the event > of a (semi-)crash, and where a core file (for security or space reasons) may > not be permitted at all or to persist for very long. Yes, I'm sure > developers like to use them too, but corporate security gets bent out of > shape big time when it sees compilers and debuggers installed, so installing > -devel is problematic. That's something you really need to raise as a bug with the appropriate distro. There's not anything we can do about it in upstream OpenJDK. > > > > ________________________________ > > If you wish to view the CPA Global group email disclaimer, please click > here<https://www.cpaglobal.com/Privacy/CPAGlobalEmailDisclaimer/> > ________________________________ > -- Andrew :) Senior Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Web Site: http://fuseyism.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/gnu_andrew_java PGP Key: ed25519/0xCFDA0F9B35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222
