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"Eric Lilja" <mindcooler_thisshouldberemoved@gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
> But then when I tried to use debug mode (M-x gdb) it didn't find a symbol 
> table but I solved that by adding ../name_of_executable to
> Run gdb (like this): gdb --annotate=3 ../name_of_executable

Yes, or put a .gdbinit file along with the executable containing:

directory src

 
> If I try compile mode (M-x compile) it doesn't work because it cant find the 
> Makefile, so I added -f ../Makefile but it still won't work because the 
> [...]
> Anyone have any other solutions??

        make -C .. 

which is equivalent to:

        cd .. ; make

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