Thanks, Paul. Do you use macOS? I read that Macs don't use gdb natively, but instead an alternative called LLVM. At any rate, gdb is not installed on my system. I can download and install it, but I'm a little hesitant, as I'm afraid it might clash with LLVM. On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Itai Berli wrote: > >> I'll appreciate it if someone can walk me through the steps needed to get >> up and running.... >> > > All the scripts finished successfully. In the end I was able to start the >> Emacs GUI from the command line by running >> >> open nextstep/Emacs.app >>> >> > You've gotten up and running, so it sounds like all you need to do is to > learn how to debug. > > I normally use gdb under Emacs to debug Emacs. To do that, I run Emacs in > the source directory, type the command "M-x gud-gdb RET bootstrap-emacs > RET" to get GDB running on a subsidiary instance of Emacs, type the GDB > command "b Fexpand_file_name" to plant a breakpoint in (say) > Fexpand_file_name, and then type the GDB command "r" to run the Emacs being > debugged. >