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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/