Re: crashes with various programs

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:43:55PM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote:
>Christopher:
>
>As I replied to Larry in a previous posting in this thread:
>% ls -l /bin/cygwin1.dbg 
>-rwxrwxrwx 1 ingber None 9753672 Aug  2 20:50 /bin/cygwin1.dbg*
>I followed your instructions:  I downloaded the latest src from snapshots
>and simply placed this file under /bin/.  I got out of cygwin and got back
>in again (several times) -- e.g., when "out" I mean there are no cygwin
>processes under CNTL-ALD-F, etc..  Is there something else I should do?

I don't know.  I was merely noting that the fact that you aren't seeing debug
symbols means that cygwin1.dbg isn't being found/used.

>Also in my .tcshrc file I have 
>setenv CYGWIN "error_start=c:/cygwin/bin/gdb.exe"
>Clearly this must work to some extent as I am getting DOS-gdb popups
>instead of crash files.  Is there something else I should do?

You have to set the CYGWIN environment variable before any cygwin program
is run.  You can't set it in a .profile, .tcshrc, or .bashrc file.

cgf

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