So uh for all this to take effect you have to do the updates on the PKGBUILD options=(!strip debug) most notably I guess... not sure what makepkg.conf adjustments you made, but I'm pretty sure the main lifting is up to these two options being set.
Is it possible that you would share the makepkg.conf you were using as well as the PKGBUILD you were doing the build with? cheers! mar77i
