gdb broken inside emacs (again? still?)

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Nov 10 02:38:00 GMT 2011


On 11/9/2011 6:08 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 09/11/2011 5:32 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 11/9/2011 4:44 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>> Debugging anything within emacs is thus completely impossible at this
>>> time.
>>
>> cgf has already stated that this will be fixed in the next release of
>> gdb; see
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10/msg00564.html
>>
> Sorry, must have missed that one. Thanks for pointing me at it.
>
>> In the meantime, can't you use gdb 7.3.50-1? If you also have problems
>> with that release, please send detailed instructions for reproducing
>> the problem (starting with emacs -Q).
> No luck:
>
> $ cygcheck -cd | grep gdb
> gdb 7.3.50-1
> libgdbm4 1.8.3-20
> $ emacs -Q -nw
> M-x gdb
> Run gdb (like this): gdb
                        ^^^^^^^^^

That's your problem.  You've deleted `--annotate=3' from the prompt 
emacs gave you.  emacs-23 needs that to be there.  M-x gdb works fine 
for me like that, using both gdb 7.3.50-1 and 7.3.50-3 (which is now 
available).  I tested with Cygwin 1.7.9 as well as with the latest snapshot.

Ken


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