Re: cygport: how to install package sources for debugging without recompiling?

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2019-05-30 06:52, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 30/05/2019 10:03, Soegtrop, Michael wrote:
>> Cygwin setup allows downloading sources of libraries, but the resulting
>> sources are not immediately useful for debugging. One gets a compressed tar
>> archive, some patches and the cygport file. I know that I can expand sources
>> and apply patches with
>> cyport <package.cygport> prep
>> which gives me what I need for debugging, just not in the right place. E.g.
>> some MinGW runtime file is searched by gdb (without giving any directory
>> commands) at
>> /usr/src/debug/mingw64-x86_64-runtime-6.0.0-1/crt/ucrtexe.c
>> But after above procedure it is in:
>> /usr/src/mingw64-x86_64-runtime-6.0.0-1.src/mingw64-x86_64-runtime-6.0.0-1.noarch/src/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-crt/crt/ucrtexe.c
>> Now of cause I can make a script and copy everything I need where it belongs.
>> But as far as I know
>> cyport <package.cygport> all
>> would put the sources in the /usr/src/debug folder. But I don't want to
>> recompile everything, I just want to put the sources where gdb can find them.
>> Is there some way to tell cyport to do this? If not this would be a great
>> additional feature for cygport (which is a very convenient tool).
> cypgort is a tool for making packages.
> It's already been used to make a package containing what you want:
> mingw64-x86_64-runtime-debuginfo.
> Is there some reason why you can't just install that?

FYI install that means from your ${P}.cygport directory:

$ tar -xf ${P}-${V}-{R}.${ARCH}/dist/${P}/${P}-${V}-{R}.tar.xz -C /
$ tar -xf
${P}-${V}-{R}.${ARCH}/dist/${P}/${P}-debuginfo/${P}-debuginfo-${V}-{R}.tar.xz -C /

as the quick and dirty way to get most packages you just built into your local
Cygwin setup, without the formality of postinstall rebasing etc. which is likely
advisable in all Cygwin 32 setups.

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