emacs 22 rpm's

emacs 22 rpm's

[Brendan Miller]

My understanding is that more recent versions of emacs (22.1 and
forwards) have a much nicer gdb frontend built in.

I need to use emacs-nox to remote debug a bunch of machines over ssh
that have gdb, but no gcc installed on them. I have the older version,
but I'd like to get the newer version of emacs for the nice gdb
support.

Compiling individually on each machine isn't really practical because
it's an operation I would need to repeat regularly, and I'd need to
set up the dev environment as well (I these machines don't have gcc or
appropriate dev packages), which again would be time consuming, and
kind of pointless since I just need the binaries.

So, does anyone know where I can find more recent rpm's compatible
with RHEL4/Centos4?

Thanks,
Brendan

emacs 22 rpm's

[Nick Roberts]

Brendan Miller writes:
 > My understanding is that more recent versions of emacs (22.1 and
 > forwards) have a much nicer gdb frontend built in.
 > 
 > I need to use emacs-nox to remote debug a bunch of machines over ssh
 > that have gdb, but no gcc installed on them. I have the older version,
 > but I'd like to get the newer version of emacs for the nice gdb
 > support.
 > 
 > Compiling individually on each machine isn't really practical because
 > it's an operation I would need to repeat regularly, ...

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do but you but you only need emacs
22 on your host machine, if you have gdb on your remote machines, and you use
a recent version of Tramp, as explained in the Tramp manual:

  With TRAMP, it is possible to
  debug programs on remote hosts.  You can call `gdb' with a remote file
  name:

       M-x gdb <RET>
       Run gdb (like this): gdb --annotate=3 /ssh:host:~/myprog <RET>


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Re: emacs 22 rpm's

[Brendan Miller]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
> Brendan Miller writes:
> I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do but you but you only need emacs
> 22 on your host machine, if you have gdb on your remote machines, and you use
> a recent version of Tramp, as explained in the Tramp manual:
>
>  With TRAMP, it is possible to
>  debug programs on remote hosts.  You can call `gdb' with a remote file
>  name:
>
>       M-x gdb <RET>
>       Run gdb (like this): gdb --annotate=3 /ssh:host:~/myprog <RET>

Hmm, I hadn't heard of tramp. I'll give that a shot. So is tramp an
extension to gdb?

It doesn't use gdb's built in remote debugging does it? I can't use
that since it requires exactly the same libraries on host and remote,
which is more or less impossible in my situation.

Re: emacs 22 rpm's

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.03.2009 um 18:33 schrieb Brendan Miller:

> So is tramp an extension to gdb?


No. It's, among others, a means to communicate with remote sites. And  
their tools.

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Re: emacs 22 rpm's

[Nick Roberts]

 > >  With TRAMP, it is possible to
 > >  debug programs on remote hosts.  You can call `gdb' with a remote file
 > >  name:
 > >
 > >       M-x gdb <RET>
 > >       Run gdb (like this): gdb --annotate=3 /ssh:host:~/myprog <RET>
 > 
 > Hmm, I hadn't heard of tramp. I'll give that a shot. So is tramp an
 > extension to gdb?

No.  It's described in the Tramp manual which I believe was included in the
Emacs 22 distribution.

 > It doesn't use gdb's built in remote debugging does it? I can't use
 > that since it requires exactly the same libraries on host and remote,
 > which is more or less impossible in my situation.

No, it just assumes Emacs on the host machine, Gdb and your executable on the
remote machine, and an ssh connection between the two.  Gdb is running on the
same machine as the executable.

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