Re: [STUMP] tty redirection from GDB to xterm not working

[Carlos Konstanski]

On 04/27/2010 03:40 AM, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> Carlos Konstanski <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I am running an ncurses C++ program under GDB from within Emacs for a
>> programming assignment at school. I use the following trick to get the
>> console output redirected to an xterm so that the ncurses stuff works:
>>
>> http://cdw.sourceforge.net/documentation/emacs_gdb_ncurses/emacs_gdb_ncurses.en.html#cleaning_upa
>>
>> The problem is that I have to log into an xfce4 desktop environment to get
>> this to work. If I try it from stumpwm, I get the following message in the
>> xterm when GDB tries to send output to it:
>>
>> warning: GDB: Failed to set controlling terminal: Operation not permitted
>>
>> All things are equal except that in one case I am running xfce4, and in the
>> other case I am running stumpwm. I am running stumpwm from the saved image
>> that is built by the makefile, and I am using SBCL.
>>
>> Any ideas how I can get past this problem?
> 
> I can reproduce this, but I am unsure whether this is a bug. And I can't
> really imagine how this is stump's fault. In my 2min survey (google
> "GDB: Failed to set controlling terminal") I found lots of people having
> the same problem in different scenarios.
> 
> Could you file a bug?
> 
> Regards,

Thanks for taking the time to reproduce this. With whom should I file the
bug? GDB? Stumpwm?

Do any of you regularly debug C++ ncurses apps? Is there another alternative
besides tty redirection?

Carlos