Win32 debug build (Re: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ...)

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
>
>  Does somebody have a good idea how to actually provide a debug build for
> win32?

Well, michael hinted on the issue with
> > >     [...] as would a windows debug symbol server for
> > > release product but ... ;-].

There have been some investigation into that.. but the problem as I
understand it is

1/ the debug 'database' is massive... > 10GB iirc... so uploading it
is a problem for most tinderbox
2/ the debug 'database' is massive so downloading is also a problem
for the would be user... apparently there is a mechanism to have
'symbol server that can on-demand probvide the pieces that one need as
you debug things... that would mitigate problem 2/... but setting up
the infra to do that is a task that is volonteer-less so far.  and of
course that does not address problem 1/.

Norbert