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RE: stripping snapshots
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:30:35 +0100
- Subject: RE: stripping snapshots
----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 20 September 2005 11:11
> ----Original Message----
>> From: Lapo Luchini
>> Sent: 20 September 2005 08:36
>
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>> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>>> Could snapshots be provided this way instead or in addition to with
>>> unstripped executables?
>>
>> But wouldn't that remove any debugging info?
>> (which is kinda needed, if a snapshot has got some bugs)
>>
>
>
> And besides, it's _really_ easy to strip them yourself:
>
> tar -tjf cygwin-inst-20050920.tar.bz2 | grep \.exe | xargs strip
>
And besides, on the face of it, there isn't actually any debug info in
there anyway:
dk@mace /test/cygwin> ls -lart
total 1364
-rw-r--r-- 1 dk Domain Users 1393024 Sep 20 05:33
cygwin-inst-20050920.tar.bz
2
drwxr-xr-x+ 131 dk Domain Users 0 Sep 20 11:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dk Domain Users 0 Sep 20 11:24 .
dk@mace /test/cygwin> tar -xjf cygwin-inst-20050920.tar.bz2
dk@mace /test/cygwin> find . -type f -name \*.exe | xargs objdump -g
./usr/bin/cygcheck.exe: file format pei-i386
objdump: ./usr/bin/cygcheck.exe: no recognized debugging information
./usr/bin/cygpath.exe: file format pei-i386
objdump: ./usr/bin/cygpath.exe: no recognized debugging information
./usr/bin/dumper.exe: file format pei-i386
[.............snip much more of the same................]
./usr/sbin/cygserver.exe: file format pei-i386
objdump: ./usr/sbin/cygserver.exe: no recognized debugging information
dk@mace /test/cygwin>
cheers,
DaveK
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