[PATCH setup] Strip symbols to setup.dbg

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Dec 6 18:44:00 GMT 2016


On Dec  6 17:37, Jon Turney wrote:
> As noted in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-11/msg00254.html debugging the
> distributed setup executable is a lost cause at the moment.  Preserve
> symbols so it's not quite as hopeless.
> 
> Note: to debug the distributed setup executable with gdb, it will be
> necessary to decompress the setup executable with 'upx -d', and, if the .dbg
> file has been renamed to match the renamed setup executable, explicitly load
> it into gdb with the 'symbol-file' command.

ACK


Corinna

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