On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:06:47PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I'll be making the .dbg file available when I make the formal cygwin >>release also, either in the source tarball or as a separate package. >> >>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?
It means that it is not meant to be installed by default. If you need it, download it separately. cgf -- 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/