Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:23:09 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?) Message-ID: <20050120212309.GB11688@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <79F81D5F4790D344B05F489CE2AC8AB7109544 AT dubexdc03 DOT dubex DOT net> <20050120200455 DOT GK9369 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/