Re: Question on debugging emacs with gdb

[Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>
> Start GDB from the Emacs's src directory.  There's a .gdbinit file
> there that takes care of this problem.  (The etc/DEBUG file actually
> tells you that as its first advice.)


As far as I can determine, my gdb instance is running with this
.gdbinit.

Heres gdb:s startup message:

GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.0post-0.20040223.19rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu".
.gdbinit:22: Error in sourced command file:
No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.


Then I do:

attach PID

all from different screen windows in a screen session running under ssh.

> If this somehow doesn't DTRT, please post the details (your OS,
> version of GDB, etc.).

Ok, heres some stats:

In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.4.14)
 of 2005-02-27 on naru.home
configured using `configure '--with-gtk' '--with-x' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' 'CFLAGS=-g''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Message

Minor modes in effect:
  mml-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  erc-truncate-mode: t
  erc-log-mode: t
  erc-bbdb-mode: t
  erc-autoaway-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  erc-smiley-mode: t
  ecb-minor-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t


[joakim@naru java]$ rpm -qi gdb
Name        : gdb                          Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 6.0post                           Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 0.20040223.19                 Build Date: Mon 03 May 2004 09:45:07 PM CEST
Install Date: Sat 04 Dec 2004 12:57:51 AM CET      Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com
Group       : Development/Debuggers         Source RPM: gdb-6.0post-0.20040223.19.src.rpm
Size        : 5182318                          License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Fri 07 May 2004 03:18:22 AM CEST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/
Summary     : A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++ and other languages.
Description :
GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++,
and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and
printing their data.


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Joakim Verona
www.verona.se