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Re: Debugging snapshot of setup.exe
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: Max Bowsher <maxb at ukf dot net>, <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:25:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Debugging snapshot of setup.exe
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On 16 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 18:59, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > Would it be a good idea to have a debugging snapshot of setup.exe
> > > available somewhere, just so people who report problems can be directed to
> > > try it out, and if the problem is reproducible with it, use gdb and
> > > provide stack backtraces? We probably won't need a HEAD snapshot, just
> > > the release one. What do people think?
> >
> > It would only be useful when troubleshooting a crash, wouldn't it?
> > If so, we can just put up debugging snapshots when a tricky crash surfaces,
> > rather than all the time.
>
> ACK.
> Rob
Ok, then, can we provide one now? Someone reported a hang (see
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01446.html>), it'd be interesting
to see what the backtrace looks like.
Igor
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