--- how-to-debug-cygwin.txt.in	Tue Jan 29 20:08:10 2002
+++ how-to-debug-cygwin.txt	Tue Jan 29 20:17:50 2002
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@

 1. The first thing you'll need to do is to build cygwin1.dll and your crashed
 application from sources. To debug them you'll need debug information, which
-is normally stripped from executables.
+is normally stripped from executables. You should also define the DEBUGGING
+macro to enable some debug features. Debug from a console window (and not
+from windows such as rxvt), as some debugging messages go to the console.

 2. Create known-working cygwin debugging environment.
 - create a separate directory, say, c:\cygdeb, and put known-working
@@ -41,6 +43,8 @@
   such situation: -b enables buffering of output and reduces additional
   timeouts introduced by strace, and -m option allows you to mask certain
   classes of *_printf() functions, reducing timeouts even more.
+  Programs started by strace are started as if directly from Windows, and
+  not as if from a Cygwin shell or program.

 5. Problems at early startup.
   Sometimes, something crashes at the very early stages of application