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Re: Snapshots are now stripped again


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

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