From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gdb help Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:56:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83ob3d44se.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1389792056388-310299.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389801440 18239 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 15:57:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:57:20 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 16:57:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3SqG-0000BR-E1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:57:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3SqG-0004WW-4Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:57:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37606) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Spy-0004WQ-Om for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Spr-0000MM-Fl for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:57:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:55125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Spr-0000MF-7y for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:56:55 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZG00G009J69800@mtaout27.012.net.il> for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:56:33 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZG00FJO9M9C310@mtaout27.012.net.il> for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:56:33 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <1389792056388-310299.post@n5.nabble.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95417 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:20:56 -0800 (PST) > From: Rob_K > > I am fairly new to programming and emacs, but I like it as an editor. > However, I have come to the point where I need to start using a debugger, > but gdb does not seem to be working. I keep getting the message "no such > file or directory" when I start to use it. > > Does emacs come with gdb natively, or do I have to install it separately? I > have tried searching for this, but to no avail. GDB is a separate package, you need to install it. Emacs provides a front-end for GDB, but it will not work until you install GDB the program.