gdb broken inside emacs (again? still?)

Ryan Johnson ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca
Thu Nov 10 03:23:00 GMT 2011


On 09/11/2011 9:37 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/9/2011 6:08 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> On 09/11/2011 5:32 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> 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.
!!

That was it. Thanks a lot, and sorry for the bother.

Ryan


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