On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:53:25AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >Also agreed. But the source provided in the cygwin source package is > >worthless for debugging, since one can't build Cygwin from that source. > >If debugger symbols were available, that source would actually be > >useful. :-) > > Huh? > > tar xjf cygwin-1.5.12-1-src.tar.bz2 > cd cygwin-1.5.12-1 > mkdir build > cd build > (../configure; make) >& make.out > > This builds a cygwin DLL. Just tried it.
Whoops! Apologies for providing outdated information... At some point this required a CVS version of w32api, IIRC. For the archives, adding "--enable-debugging" to "../configure" above should build a debug version of the DLL. > Since all of your arguments were presupposing something to do with CVS, > I assume that this addresses your concerns. Yes, it does. > You don't need CVS and I did not say that you had to use CVS. > > It does make sense to check CVS or a snapshot to see if your problem is > fixed before you go to any effort trying to debug a problem, however. True, and others have made this point too. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/