From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19804 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 2012 01:27:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 19791 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jul 2012 01:27:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_YG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from orchid.mail.cornell.edu (HELO orchid.mail.cornell.edu) (132.236.56.61) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:26:52 +0000 Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by orchid.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q6J1QpUd017638 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:26:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id q6J1QoH0018973 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:26:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <50076256.5000206@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:27:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygport debug junk References: <50073394.8040901@cornell.edu> <50073E51.1090709@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <50073E51.1090709@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Wed Jul 18 21:26:51 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00379.txt.bz2 On 7/18/2012 6:53 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > Bzzzt. Don't use internal structures. If it's not documented in the > manual, you shouldn't be using it in your .cygport, and anything > starting with an underscore is purely internal. Sorry, I didn't realize that. > But again, while I can't state this as policy, you really shouldn't be > disabling debuginfo on a widespread or permanent basis. It's a feature > and it's there for a reason. I disabled it for my recent texlive release, simply because texlive is so huge already that I didn't want to add to it. Do you think that was the wrong decision? Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple