Re: emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Andreas Schwab]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Justin Randall <logic@jrlogic.dyndns.org> writes:
>
>> Emacs 21.3.1 seems to be even more convuluted regarding gdb and libtool 
>> created programs. Will GNU Emacs ever work with GNU auto-tools created 
>> programs?
>
> Emacs in CVS work fine with gdb and libtool; the problem was that
> Emacs modified the prompt that was entered by the user and what was
> sent to the shell, which didn't work well.  Now the command is sent
> verbatim.  So the next release should handle it.

There is still the issue with finding the file name argument, which won't
do the right thing if "gdb" is replaced by a multi-word command.

Andreas.

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