*) Introduce debugging symbols for Win32 release builds, both .pdb and .dbg files (older debuggers and Dr. Watson-type utilities on WinNT or Win9x don't support the newer .pdb flavor.) [Allen Edwards, William Rowe] This backport is necessary in order to assure those debugging the Apache binaries are in a position to collect Crash Dump files from segfault bug reports, either to use locally ourselves, or for the user to merge into their {c:\windows}\symbols tree (for .dbg files) or leave in the same directories as the binaries (for .pdb files). This patch has no impact on optimization, performance, file size (of those binaries) or other attributes. Although this will add 'heft' to the distribution, we can decide 1) to package them in a seperate .zip file from dist/httpd/binaries/win32/ or 2) to include them in the .msi, but install only in the custom install selection page, or finally, 3) set up our own symbols 'server' that can be configured with windbg to automatically retrieve the right symbol sets for a given release package. Discussion is free to follow on list; these are the results of Allen and my research into the murky depths of 9x v.s. NT v.s. 2000/XP debug symbols. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/APACHE_2_0_BRANCH@98597 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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