diff --git a/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/mingw/modulehandler.cpp b/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/mingw/modulehandler.cpp
index 6e367c75f46..f3c277de6d4 100644
--- a/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/mingw/modulehandler.cpp
+++ b/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/mingw/modulehandler.cpp
@@ -1428,6 +1428,9 @@ MingwModuleHandler::GenerateRunRsymCode () const
              "ifneq ($(ROS_GENERATE_RSYM),no)\n" );
 	fprintf ( fMakefile,
 	          "\t$(ECHO_RSYM)\n" );
+	// FIXME! workaround until rsym can extract line numbers from DWARF
+	fprintf ( fMakefile,
+	          "\t$(Q)${strip} -R .debug_abbrev -R .debug_aranges -R .debug_frame -R .debug_info -R .debug_line -R .debug_pubnames -R .debug_macinfo -R .debug_str -R .debug_loc -R .debug_pubtypes -R .debug_ranges -R .debug_static_func -R .debug_static_vars -R .debug_types -R .debug_weaknames $@\n\n" );
 	fprintf ( fMakefile,
 	          "\t$(Q)$(RSYM_TARGET) $@ $@\n\n" );
 	fprintf ( fMakefile,