bug#1489: gud.el not working with idb

[Alfredo Buttari]

Dear Nick,
M-x gud-gdb does not work at all. This is the error I get:

call-interactively: Autoloading failed to define function gud-gdb

Yes I agree this shouldn't be considered a bug. However I imagine it should be relatively easy to fix since idb provides a gdb compatibility mode (see the -gdb flag in the debugger command) and would make many users happy. I may try to learn some lisp and look into this problem myself although revision 1.136 has everything I need.
Thanks a lot

Alfredo

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:

Chong Yidong writes:
 > > I just recompiled emacs (latest version from CVS) but I noticed that
 > > gud.el is not working anymore when used in combination with the intel
 > > idb debugger.  After "M-x gdb" I provide the debugger command "idb
 > > -gdb -fullname myexe" (as reported on the idb manual) and the main gud
 > > window is loaded. At this point, whatever I do gud just hangs.
 >
 > I don't have idb available, so I can only try to guess what went wrong.
 > First of all, does anything change if you change the variable
 > gud-gdb-command-name from "gdb --fullname" to "gdb --annotate=3"?

This isn't really an Emacs bug as gud.el wasn't designed for idb, but
`M-x gud-gdb' gives the old functionality that you probably want.

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