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Re: [PATCH setup] Strip symbols to setup.dbg

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 19:44:32 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup] Strip symbols to setup.dbg
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References: <20161206173735.135760-1-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com

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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