Re: emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Simon Josefsson]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> 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.

I don't understand, can you give an example?  Typing 'libtool gdb
./foo' at the M-x gdb RET prompt work here, if that is what you meant
by multi-word command.