Re: Help getting started debugging Emacs on macOS Sierra

[Tino Calancha]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2017, Itai Berli wrote:

> Thanks, Tino.
> I've finally managed to get gdb to work by executing the following two 
> instructions at the gdb command prompt:
> (gdb) cd ~/emacs
> (gdb) file src/bootstrap-emacs
>
> However, your suggestion to execute the following from the terminal, didn't 
> work:
>
> > emacs ~/emacs/src
Oh, i think you mention you run Emacs with:
open nextstep/Emacs.app

i don't have mac but i guess the following might work (*):
open -a nextstep/Emacs.app ~/emacs/src

(*) https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS#toc17

In case it works, then call from Emacs the gdb front-end:
M-x gdb RET
;; You must see something like:
gdb -i=mi bootstrap-emacs
;; Just enter and gdb would have loaded the Emacs executable