From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 22 rpm's Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:33:12 -0800 Message-ID: References: <18862.20950.497152.435027@snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236188046 8567 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2009 17:34:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 04 18:35:23 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Leuzp-0002JI-6L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:35:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeuyT-0005WN-Pl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:33:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Leuy4-0005Vy-LM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:33:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Leuy2-0005Sa-Ib for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:33:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51769 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Leuy2-0005SI-EC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f179.google.com ([209.85.219.179]:63893) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Leuy2-0002RF-42 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so2932615ewy.42 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:33:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.210.87.19 with SMTP id k19mr71155ebb.62.1236187992970; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:33:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <18862.20950.497152.435027@snap.net.nz> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62587 Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Nick Roberts wrote: > Brendan Miller writes: > I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do but you but you only need = emacs > 22 on your host machine, if you have gdb on your remote machines, and you= use > a recent version of Tramp, as explained in the Tramp manual: > > =A0With TRAMP, it is possible to > =A0debug programs on remote hosts. =A0You can call `gdb' with a remote fi= le > =A0name: > > =A0 =A0 =A0 M-x gdb > =A0 =A0 =A0 Run gdb (like this): gdb --annotate=3D3 /ssh:host:~/myprog Hmm, I hadn't heard of tramp. I'll give that a shot. So is tramp an extension to gdb? It doesn't use gdb's built in remote debugging does it? I can't use that since it requires exactly the same libraries on host and remote, which is more or less impossible in my situation.