> I loaded a lisp file like this "emacs -l foo.lisp" at the command
line.
> That file contained one line:
> (setq gud-gdb-command-name "gdb --annotate=3 /tmp/foo")
>
> When I tried to run gdb using M-x gdb, it added a random filename from
> the working directory to the end of the gdb command like this:
> gdb --annotate=3 foo randomfilename
That's because it tries now to guess the name of the executable that you
want to debug.
> Although it's possible, I'm doing something wrong, the behavior is
> different with older versions of emacs.
It looks like gud-gdb-command-name wasn't documented in earlier
Emacsen but
it is now:
Documentation:
Default command to execute an executable under the GDB debugger.
It's also mentioned in the Emacs manual now. I suggest that you leave
it at
it's default value and type in the name of the executable.
I use makefiles for a project to open emacs with etags and a preconfigured
gud-gdb-command-name. When using emacs as an IDE, this makes my life
easier... especially since in real life, my gud command has a filename
a lot more complicated than /tmp/foo:
gdb --annotate=3
/projects/dl/cvstrunk/shared/sw/gvu/bin/fc6debug1_singlethread/gvu
I don't like typing that long filename. If the new behavior is not a
bug that will be fixed,
any suggestions for getting the old behavior?