On 07/07/2012 14:10, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 29/06/2012 20:48, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 01:24 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>> Attached is a first draft of a patch to support split debuginfo packages
>>> automatically in cygport.
>>
>> Second draft patch attached.
>
> This works fine.  Thanks.
>
> I was going to suggest the use of objcopy --compress-debug-sections, but it
> appears that does nothing for PE/COFF files at the moment [1] :-(
>
> [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14067

That bug has been fixed for a while, so how about the attached?

This appears to reduce the disk space used by .dbg files to about 1/3 of 
the size, so seems worthwhile.