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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:32:09 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A vexing installation problem
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:25:21PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>This suggests some sort of a problem with the Cygwin DLL initialization
>code -- something that's very hard to debug.  Try looking at the CVS
>history for the Cygwin initialization code between the 1.5.5 and 1.5.6
>releases.

Cygwin initialization code isn't particularly hard to debug.  You just
set breakpoints and debug it like any other part of cygwin.  It's
actually easier to debug than most other pieces because there aren't
multiple threads running.

cgf

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