Hi, all,
For a while now, there has been a struggle between those of us who want testers to send us full Gdb backtraces, and people who need smaller files to download over their connections.
I have been working on a compromise between the two:
1. Separating out the debug symbols into a file named inkscape.dbg, and then stripping inkscape.exe . This takes longer to link, but it preserves all of the debug symbols.
2. For each .exe that we place on a download page, we also provide a compressed copy of its corresponding .dbg file.
Now testers do not need to download those many MB of symbols every time, but when a bug happens, they can download the .dbg, do a backtrace, and send the info to us. Now the difference between the 'stripped' and 'unstripped' versions of the builds need only refer to the accompanying DLLs, not the Inkscape executable itself.
I committed the makefiles already, and I'm uploading Inkscape0603021243.zip and Inkscape0603021243-dbg.zip.
Hope this can help alleviate some of the confusion. I'll post some info on how to use gdb with the .dbg file.
Bob (ishmal)