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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: stripping snapshots
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:30:35 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 20 September 2005 11:11

> ----Original Message----
>> From: Lapo Luchini
>> Sent: 20 September 2005 08:36
> 
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>> 
>> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>>> Could snapshots be provided this way instead or in addition to with
>>> unstripped executables?
>> 
>> But wouldn't that remove any debugging info?
>> (which is kinda needed, if a snapshot has got some bugs)
>> 
> 
> 
>   And besides, it's _really_ easy to strip them yourself:
> 
> tar -tjf cygwin-inst-20050920.tar.bz2 | grep \.exe | xargs strip
> 

  And besides, on the face of it, there isn't actually any debug info in
there anyway:


dk AT mace /test/cygwin> ls -lart
total 1364
-rw-r--r--    1 dk Domain Users 1393024 Sep 20 05:33
cygwin-inst-20050920.tar.bz
2
drwxr-xr-x+ 131 dk Domain Users       0 Sep 20 11:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x+   2 dk Domain Users       0 Sep 20 11:24 .
dk AT mace /test/cygwin> tar -xjf cygwin-inst-20050920.tar.bz2
dk AT mace /test/cygwin> find . -type f -name \*.exe | xargs objdump -g

./usr/bin/cygcheck.exe:     file format pei-i386

objdump: ./usr/bin/cygcheck.exe: no recognized debugging information

./usr/bin/cygpath.exe:     file format pei-i386

objdump: ./usr/bin/cygpath.exe: no recognized debugging information

./usr/bin/dumper.exe:     file format pei-i386

[.............snip much more of the same................]

./usr/sbin/cygserver.exe:     file format pei-i386

objdump: ./usr/sbin/cygserver.exe: no recognized debugging information
dk AT mace /test/cygwin>

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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