[aur-general] keep debugging symbols in AUR package

[Morgan Adamiec]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 01:28, Friedrich Strohmaier
<damokles4-listen at bits-fritz.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I use to install AUR package fotoxx.
> I get some zappcrash message when closing the application an would like to help the author finding the bug.
>
> The author sent adapted source packages to get more debugging information.
> I tried change the PKGBUILD's "pkgrel"- variable to generate several packages
> containing debugging symbols, but at the end of the build this message looks
> suspicous:
>
> ..
>   -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
> ..
>
> What makes packages keep debugging symbols?
>
> Tips?
> Keywords for wiki search?
>
> Any hints welcome :o))
> --
> Friedrich

See PKGBUILD(5). You need to add !strip to the options. Or perhaps a
better way is to use the debug option.