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Re: Snapshots are now stripped again


On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> The split of debug information into a separate file reflects a change to
> the way the Cygwin DLL is now generated by the makefile in
> winsup/cygwin.  Debug information will no longer be part of the DLL
> itself, but will, instead, only be included in the .dbg file.  There is
> a technical reason which prompted this change which I won't go into
> here, but I think the minor inconvenience of keeping the debug info in a
> separate place outweighs the benefits of keeping the debug info out of
> the DLL and making it available as a separate download.

I noticed that the .dbg file is not part of the cygwin-inst-* tarballs.
Does this mean that it's not generated by the default make rule, or that
it's explicitly removed before generating the installation tarball?
	Igor
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