Problem with GDB/GUD (emacs BZR)

[stefasab@gmail.com]

Hi all,

~/s/emacs.bzr> emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

~/s/emacs.bzr> gdb --version
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.

I'm having big problems at using gdb, I tried various combinations
(using gdb --annotate=3, gdb -i=mi) but gdb is always mibehaving.

For example this is what I see in the *gud* buffer with M-x gbd -> gdb --annotate=3:
---------------------------------------------------8<-------------------

                                                                                    \x1a\x1apre-prompt
       \x1a\x1aprompt
[...]                                                                                    \x1a\x1apost-prompt
\x1a\x1aerror-begin
Undefined command: "1-inferior-tty-set".  Try "help".
\x1a\x1apre-prompt
       \x1a\x1aprompt
---------------------------------------------------8<-------------------

If I try to use gdb -i=mi I got something of the kind:
---------------------------------------------------8<-------------------
(gdb) file hello
r
b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048542: file hello.c, line 5.
(gdb) r
n
n
(gdb) 
---------------------------------------------------8<-------------------

No prompt is shown and the pointer in the source code buffer is not
updated as I step over/into.



Finally if I don't specify the gdb flags I got something of the kind:

---------------------------------------------------8<-------------------
Current directory is /home/stefano/src/Sandbox/C/
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /home/stefano/src/Sandbox/C/hello...done.
(gdb) Undefined command: "1-inferior-tty-set".  Try "help".
(gdb) Undefined command: "2-gdb-set".  Try "help".
(gdb) Undefined command: "3-gdb-set".  Try "help".
(gdb) Undefined command: "4-file-list-exec-source-files".  Try "help".
(gdb) Undefined command: "5-file-list-exec-source-file".  Try "help".
(gdb) Undefined command: "6-gdb-show".  Try "help".
(gdb) Undefined command: "7-stack-info-frame".  Try "help".
(gdb) Undefined command: "8-thread-info".  Try "help".
(gdb) Undefined command: "9-break-list".  Try "help".

(gdb) Undefined command: "-interpreter-exec".  Try "help".
help
(gdb) Undefined command: "-interpreter-exec".  Try "help".
r
(gdb) Undefined command: "-interpreter-exec".  Try "help".
help
(gdb) Undefined command: "-interpreter-exec".  Try "help".
---------------------------------------------------8<-------------------

So I'm badly stucked here, up to the point that I cannot to debug code
from emacs.

Can you give some guidance, or at least provide some hint regarding
how should I debug this problem? Up to now I didn't find anything
useful by googling, help is much appreciated.

Regards.