Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

["Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:47:33PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> 
> Sure, how about this:
> 
> I've found a bug in Cygwin, how can I debug it?
> 
> Debugging symbols are stripped from distibuted Cygwin binaries, so any
> symbols that you
> see in gdb are basically meaningless. It is also a good idea to use
> the latest code in case the bug has been fixed, so you will need to
> either build your own debugging version by following the instructions
> at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC102 or use a current snapshot
> from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

This must be modulated by the warnings on the snapshot page,
so I would recommend an initial step: write to the list, describe
the bug and ask for a recommended snapshot.
Should we also provide an optional cygwin_debug package, with only
an unstripped cygwin1.dll.debug ?

Pierre

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