Re: Using gdb in emacs 21 on Mac OS X 10.1.5

[Nick Roberts]

> When I run M-x gdb in emacs 20.7 (the one shipped by Apple) I get a gdb
> subprocess buffer on top, and a source buffer with ==> indicating the
> current line below.

> How do I set this up in emacs 21 (CVS version 8/21/2004, carbon)? I get
> the gdb subprocess buffer but not the source buffer. Instead emacs
> displays the current line directly before the prompt in the gdb buffer. Is
> this
> intended?

 

No.

 

Ken Coleman had problems with Mac OS X. See the thread on this

mailing list (in the archive at lists.gnu.org) called, something like, gdb-ui and Mac OS X

from Feb/Mar/Apr this year.

 

I have no access to CVS Emacs at the moment and won't have for the next month

In any case I don't have a Mac. So if you can debug the problem that would be great.

The above thread talks about a lisp variable called (something like) gdb-enable-debug-log.

If you set that and evauate gdb-debug-log, it might help you.

 

> Changing process-connection-type didn't help.
> (although I had to change it to get M-x gdb to work reliably in CVS emacs,
> somehow Apple's version doesn't seem to suffer from the pty bug...)

I think this has been covered on the mailing list before.

 

> Also, running gdb with or without --annotate=3 didn't change anything
> except for all the annotations cluttering my gdb buffer.

What version of gdb are you using?

 

Nick