cygport: how to install package sources for debugging without recompiling?

[Jon Turney]

On 30/05/2019 10:03, Soegtrop, Michael wrote:
> Dear Cygwin Team,
> 
> Cygwin setup allows downloading sources of libraries, but the resulting sources are not immediately useful for debugging. One gets a compressed tar archive, some patches and the cygport file. I know that I can expand sources and apply patches with
> 
> cyport <package.cygport> prep
> 
> which gives me what I need for debugging, just not in the right place. E.g. some MinGW runtime file is searched by gdb (without giving any directory commands) at
> 
> /usr/src/debug/mingw64-x86_64-runtime-6.0.0-1/crt/ucrtexe.c
> 
> But after above procedure it is in:
> 
> /usr/src/mingw64-x86_64-runtime-6.0.0-1.src/mingw64-x86_64-runtime-6.0.0-1.noarch/src/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-crt/crt/ucrtexe.c
> 
> Now of cause I can make a script and copy everything I need where it belongs. But as far as I know
> 
> cyport <package.cygport> all
> 
> would put the sources in the /usr/src/debug folder. But I don't want to recompile everything, I just want to put the sources where gdb can find them. Is there some way to tell cyport to do this? If not this would be a great additional feature for cygport (which is a very convenient tool).

cypgort is a tool for making packages.

It's already been used to make a package containing what you want: 
mingw64-x86_64-runtime-debuginfo.

Is there some reason why you can't just install that?

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