Hello Patrick There is no particular reason, I guess they are just missing from the spec file. I will check this and add them. Sorry that I didn't see this earlier but I am not using rpms and don't really know much about it. Cheers, Wilko On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Patrick McGuigan wrote: > Hi, > > Since the topic of restructuring the build process is being discussed, I have > an observation on the RPMs (binary or source) from the production version. > > We need to use libXrdPosixPreload.so for our application, but the file is not > in the released binary RPM, nor does a rebuild on the source rpm put it in > the resulting binary RPM. I found a number of components that are built > during make, but are not put in the RPM: > > lib/libXrdClient.so > lib/libXrdPosixPreload.so > lib/libXrdProxy.so > > > utils/xrdcksum > utils/xrdm5sum > > > I can create my own spec file to include these items, but I am curious if > there is a specific reason why these are not included? The RPM's also > contain/build the debug version. Is there enough of a performance difference > to warrant turning off the the debug build? > > > Thanks, > > Patrick > > > >