Thanks. What does the '-i=mi' mean? I don't see the '-i' option on the gdb
man page.

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2017, Itai Berli wrote:
>
> Thanks, Tino.
>> I've finally managed to get gdb to work by executing the following two
>> instructions at the gdb command prompt:
>> (gdb) cd ~/emacs
>> (gdb) file src/bootstrap-emacs
>>
>> However, your suggestion to execute the following from the terminal,
>> didn't work:
>>
>> > emacs ~/emacs/src
>>
> Oh, i think you mention you run Emacs with:
> open nextstep/Emacs.app
>
> i don't have mac but i guess the following might work (*):
> open -a nextstep/Emacs.app ~/emacs/src
>
> (*) https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS#toc17
>
> In case it works, then call from Emacs the gdb front-end:
> M-x gdb RET
> ;; You must see something like:
> gdb -i=mi bootstrap-emacs
> ;; Just enter and gdb would have loaded the Emacs executable
>