cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:47:33PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:12:31PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote:
>> >Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy.
>> 
>On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:04:55 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Since cygwin isn't built with debugging symbols, the symbols that you do
>> see in gdb are basically meaningless.
>> 
>> I think this has come up often enough to be a FAQ.  Joshua?
>> 
>> In any event, you do need to either build a debugging version or, possibly,
>> use a snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ since those are currently
>> built with debugging turned on.
>
>Sure, how about this:
>
>I've found a bug in Cygwin, how can I debug it?
>
>Debugging symbols are stripped from distibuted Cygwin binaries, so any
>symbols that you
>see in gdb are basically meaningless. It is also a good idea to use
>the latest code in case the bug has been fixed, so you will need to
>either build your own debugging version by following the instructions
>at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC102 or use a current snapshot
>from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Poifect.

cgf

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