OCPBUGS-76319: Makefile: Strip debugging symbols by default

[tchap]

You can still run make STRIP_DEBUGGING_SYMBOLS=false oc to skip that.

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Walkthrough

This pull request introduces a new build-time configuration to control debugging symbol stripping. A STRIP_DEBUGGING_SYMBOLS flag is added to the Makefile with conditional linker flags, and README documentation is updated to explain the feature.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Build Configuration Makefile	Introduces STRIP_DEBUGGING_SYMBOLS flag (defaults to true) and STRIP_DEBUGGING_SYMBOLS_FLAGS variable with -s -w linker options. Extends GO_LD_EXTRAFLAGS to append these flags to the linker configuration for binary optimization.
Documentation README.md	Adds documentation explaining that debugging symbols are excluded by default during builds and provides the command to include them using STRIP_DEBUGGING_SYMBOLS=false.

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/jira refresh

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@tchap: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-76319, which is valid. The bug has been moved to the POST state.

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• bug is open, matching expected state (open)
• bug target version (4.22.0) matches configured target version for branch (4.22.0)
• bug is in the state New, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)

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@tchap: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-76319, which is valid.

3 validation(s) were run on this bug

• bug is open, matching expected state (open)
• bug target version (4.22.0) matches configured target version for branch (4.22.0)
• bug is in the state POST, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)

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I still need to verify what all needs to be done for this, starting with RPM for now.

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/retitle OCPBUGS-76319: Strip debugging symbols when releasing oc

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@tchap: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-76319, which is valid.

3 validation(s) were run on this bug

• bug is open, matching expected state (open)
• bug target version (4.22.0) matches configured target version for branch (4.22.0)
• bug is in the state POST, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)

The bug has been updated to refer to the pull request using the external bug tracker.

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We don't want the debug RPM package, so I am setting -w -s in oc.spec directly.

For other cases, oc is being built using the included Dockerfiles, so I updated those as well.

go build is now passed -trimpath also so that there are no absolute file paths in the executable.

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[tchap]

/retest

[tchap]

@ardaguclu I greatly simplified the thing as requested, PTAL.

[ardaguclu]

@ardaguclu I greatly simplified the thing as requested, PTAL.

Thank you. It looks good to me. Let's run the payload blocking jobs;

/payload 4.22 nightly blocking
/lgtm
/approve
/hold
until blocking jobs are green.

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@ardaguclu: trigger 14 job(s) of type blocking for the nightly release of OCP 4.22

• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.22-e2e-aws-upgrade-ovn-single-node
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-fips
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.22-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.22-upgrade-from-stable-4.21-e2e-gcp-ovn-rt-upgrade
• periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.22-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-conformance
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-aws-ovn-serial-1of2
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-aws-ovn-serial-2of2
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.22-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.22-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial-1of3
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.22-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial-2of3
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.22-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial-3of3
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-fips-no-nat-instance
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv4
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6

See details on https://pr-payload-tests.ci.openshift.org/runs/ci/efebbcb0-0b27-11f1-9af8-0484481bd74f-0

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[ardaguclu]

@sdodson mentioned that these changes could be backported to previous versions. Perhaps, once we land this PR in 4.22 and give it some soak time to catch any regressions, we can backport it down to 4.20?.

[sdodson]

@sdodson mentioned that these changes could be backported to previous versions. Perhaps, once we land this PR in 4.22 and give it some soak time to catch any regressions, we can backport it down to 4.20?.

I don't think we're in a rush. How about four weeks between main and release-4.21, then another four weeks between release-4.21 and release-4.20? We'll still beat most wide adoption of 4.20 with that timeline.

[tchap]

/retest

[ardaguclu]

This can wait until achknowledge-critical-fixes-only requirement is lifted
/hold

[ardaguclu]

/hold cancel
/retest

[sdodson]

/retest-required
Looks like this only has about a 50% pass rate, hard to envision this change causing those test failures but lets give it one more shot

[ardaguclu]

/verified by CI

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[ardaguclu]

I think, this openshift/origin#30809 will fix the e2e-agnostic-ovn-cmd failure.

[sdodson]

/override ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
passed on previous runs no relevant changes to indicate that this PR has broken anything there

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@sdodson: Overrode contexts on behalf of sdodson: ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn, ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade

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@tchap: Jira Issue Verification Checks: Jira Issue OCPBUGS-76319
✔️ This pull request was pre-merge verified.
✔️ All associated pull requests have merged.
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Jira Issue OCPBUGS-76319 has been moved to the MODIFIED state and will move to the VERIFIED state when the change is available in an accepted nightly payload. 🕓

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You can still run make STRIP_DEBUGGING_SYMBOLS=false oc to skip that.

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Fix included in accepted release 4.22.0-0.nightly-2026-02-26-092444