On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 06:40:24PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >Sorry for not getting back to this earlier. > >On 04/08/2009 13:58, Reini Urban wrote: >> Rather than stripping our exe's and dll's I suggest to strip the debug >> info into >> seperate /usr/lib/debug/path/file.dbg and package them seperately in >> -debuginfo >> packages such as with fedora. >> >> On any error which requires user-side debugging these symbols can be used >> by gdb (--symbols=SYMFILE) easily. >> >> dumper should use them too. >> Is this a good idea? > >At least in theory, certainly. As for implementation:
I don't see why dumper would need this. AFAIK, the linux kernel doesn't need debugging information to dump core. >This would require changes in cygport, upset, and setup.exe but would >save maintainers from having to change each one of their packages. > >Thoughts? This seems like a not-inconsiderable amount of work for something that would only rarely be used. How many people here are capable of firing up a debugger to decode problems? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
