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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: OwN-3m-All <own3mall@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6afb5b9f-d4d7-dd17-6510-e7d84efcf4ff@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK0ZC5UOL-733KDp70Yy=72KNXVwW3W9BXceGKgYd7+w19JBXA@mail.gmail.com>

On 19/11/2016 01:48, OwN-3m-All wrote:
> I'm not running Windows Defender or any software for that matter on my
> test instance of Server 2008.
>
> I tried running GDB, but the setup executable doesn't have any
> debugging symbols.  Is there a download link somewhere for the latest
> compiled cygwin setup that includes these symbols?

Sorry, this isn't available...

> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.7.50.20140303-cvs
> Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This binary was built by Equation Solution <http://www.Equation.com>...
> Reading symbols from setup-x86_64.exe...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb)

... and even if it was, this wouldn't work because the distributed setup 
executable is packed with UPX, and gdb doesn't understand what that does 
to the process memory map.

> I won't be able to debug it further unless I have that... I guess.

I'm afraid you will probably have to build setup from source to debug 
further (See [1])

[1] 
https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/setup.git;a=blob;f=README

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-20 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-18  3:20 OwN-3m-All
2016-11-18  3:41 ` Andrey Repin
2016-11-18  6:04   ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-18  6:11     ` Brian Inglis
2016-11-18  6:18       ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-18  6:20         ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-18  7:32           ` Andrey Repin
2016-11-18 12:59           ` Brian Inglis
2016-11-20 19:19           ` Achim Gratz
2016-11-21 13:40             ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-21 16:17               ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-18  6:35         ` Andrey Repin
2016-11-18  7:13     ` Andrey Repin
2016-11-19  0:15     ` Achim Gratz
2016-11-19  2:08       ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-19 13:42         ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-19 14:41           ` Brian Inglis
2016-11-20 19:01           ` Jon Turney [this message]

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