Some modules .so are stripped while others are not

[g4-lisz at tonarchiv.ch]

May 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM, "Alan DeKok via Freeradius-Users" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org mailto:freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org?to=%22Alan%20DeKok%20via%20Freeradius-Users%22%20%3Cfreeradius-users%40lists.freeradius.org%3E > wrote:

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> On May 17, 2026, at 11:20 PM, g4-lisz at tonarchiv.ch wrote:
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> > 
> > I wonder why some modules are stripped of their text symbols, others are not.
> > 
>  What OS? Where did you get the packages from?
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> > 
> > For example 
> >  
> >  >nm -D /opt/rad/lib/rlm_rest.so | grep -i " T "
> > 
>  /opt/rad is not a normal installation location.
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> > 
> > doesn't show anything, even when using ./configure --enable-developer
> >  
> >  How is this configured? I couldn't find the "magic"...
> > 
>  The Makefile, and Make.inc control how the server is build. All of the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are defined there.
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>  If '-g' is in the CFLAGS, then the binaries are not stripped.
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>  Nothing in the default build strips the binaries of debugging symbols.
> 
>  Alan DeKok.
> 
Hi Alan,

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I have to admit that the build is based on an old release tarball (3.0.17). This is what is still running in production here, that's why I'm still extending our own modules based on this source.

I compiled it on RHEL 8, RHEL 9 and also on Ubuntu 22.04 - it's the same on all these platforms: Some modules are stripped, other's aren't.

I'm using 
./configure --prefix=/opt/rad

No other special flags...

I also compared the all.mk files in the modules subdirs, but can't find any special there that would explain the difference. It's really quit a mistery....

This is the CFLAGS form root Make.inc          = $(INCLUDE) -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-date-time -g3 -Wall -std=c99 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5  -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -W -Wredundant-decls -Wundef -Wformat-y2k -Wno-format-extra-args -Wno-format-zero-length -Wno-cast-align -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wformat=2 -DWITH_VERIFY_PTR=1

Cheers
Till