On Windows, Program Database (.pdb) files contain debugging information which can be read and used by native Windows debuggers/profilers/etc, making them much more useful for examining the native side of the JDK. We generate .pdbs during the build on a per-dll basis, but don't copy them from build/tmp into the final build or image directory.

To get the most out of native tools, one has to either copy over the .pdb files by hand, or modify the makefile to copy them out of build/tmp.

The debug build of the JDK would be more useful if the .pdb files were already in the correct place.

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