emacs gud does not work with libtool

emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Justin Randall]

The gud.el included with emacs 21.3 prepends arguments to gdb
M-x gdb
Run gdb as: gdb <target>
which appearantly is executed as
gdb -cd <path> -fullname <target>

When fronting gdb with libtool to debug not-yet-installed programs
M-x gdb
Run gdb as: libtool gdb <target>
it's executed as
libtool -cd <path> -fullname gdb <target>

Which libtool doesn't like. This could arguably be a shortcoming of
libtool. I've made a change to gud.el to workaround this behavior:

--- gud-original.el     2003-08-26 09:50:28.000000000 -0500
+++ gud.el      2003-08-26 10:47:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -307,8 +307,7 @@
 (defvar gud-gdb-history nil)

 (defun gud-gdb-massage-args (file args)
-  (cons "-cd" (cons (expand-file-name default-directory)
-                   (cons "-fullname" args))))
+  (append args (list "-cd" (expand-file-name default-directory)
"-fullname" )))

 (defvar gud-gdb-marker-regexp
   ;; This used to use path-separator instead of ":";

gud mode will spawn gdb correctly in both cases
M-x gdb
Run gdb as: gdb <target>
executs as:
gdb <target> -cd <path> -fullname

and
M-x gdb
Run gdb as: libtool gdb <target>
executs as
libtool gdb <target> -cd <path> -fullname

Which is the correct behavior for libtool and is appearantly also correct
for gdb. I've tested this with gdb-5.3 and emacs 21.3 debugging programs
and core dumps with no problems.

Thanks to Todd Fiala for helping me grok the el change necessary to get
gdb + libtool working correctly.

Re:emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Justin Randall]

Emacs 21.3.1 seems to be even more convuluted regarding gdb and libtool 
created programs. Will GNU Emacs ever work with GNU auto-tools created 
programs?

Re: emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Andreas Schwab]

Justin Randall <logic@jrlogic.dyndns.org> writes:

> Emacs 21.3.1 seems to be even more convuluted regarding gdb and libtool 
> created programs. Will GNU Emacs ever work with GNU auto-tools created 
> programs?

$ cat ~/bin/lgdb
#!/bin/sh
exec libtool --mode=execute gdb "$@"

Andreas.

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Re: emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Justin Randall]

On Thursday 02 October 2003 05:19 am, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Justin Randall <logic@jrlogic.dyndns.org> writes:
> > Emacs 21.3.1 seems to be even more convuluted regarding gdb and libtool
> > created programs. Will GNU Emacs ever work with GNU auto-tools created
> > programs?
>
> $ cat ~/bin/lgdb
> #!/bin/sh
> exec libtool --mode=execute gdb "$@"
>
> Andreas.

That works. Thank you!

Re: emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Simon Josefsson]

Justin Randall <logic@jrlogic.dyndns.org> writes:

> Emacs 21.3.1 seems to be even more convuluted regarding gdb and libtool 
> created programs. Will GNU Emacs ever work with GNU auto-tools created 
> programs?

Emacs in CVS work fine with gdb and libtool; the problem was that
Emacs modified the prompt that was entered by the user and what was
sent to the shell, which didn't work well.  Now the command is sent
verbatim.  So the next release should handle it.

Re: emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Andreas Schwab]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Justin Randall <logic@jrlogic.dyndns.org> writes:
>
>> Emacs 21.3.1 seems to be even more convuluted regarding gdb and libtool 
>> created programs. Will GNU Emacs ever work with GNU auto-tools created 
>> programs?
>
> Emacs in CVS work fine with gdb and libtool; the problem was that
> Emacs modified the prompt that was entered by the user and what was
> sent to the shell, which didn't work well.  Now the command is sent
> verbatim.  So the next release should handle it.

There is still the issue with finding the file name argument, which won't
do the right thing if "gdb" is replaced by a multi-word command.

Andreas.

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Re: emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Simon Josefsson]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Justin Randall <logic@jrlogic.dyndns.org> writes:
>>
>>> Emacs 21.3.1 seems to be even more convuluted regarding gdb and libtool 
>>> created programs. Will GNU Emacs ever work with GNU auto-tools created 
>>> programs?
>>
>> Emacs in CVS work fine with gdb and libtool; the problem was that
>> Emacs modified the prompt that was entered by the user and what was
>> sent to the shell, which didn't work well.  Now the command is sent
>> verbatim.  So the next release should handle it.
>
> There is still the issue with finding the file name argument, which won't
> do the right thing if "gdb" is replaced by a multi-word command.

I don't understand, can you give an example?  Typing 'libtool gdb
./foo' at the M-x gdb RET prompt work here, if that is what you meant
by multi-word command.

Re: emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Andreas Schwab]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>
>>> Justin Randall <logic@jrlogic.dyndns.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Emacs 21.3.1 seems to be even more convuluted regarding gdb and libtool 
>>>> created programs. Will GNU Emacs ever work with GNU auto-tools created 
>>>> programs?
>>>
>>> Emacs in CVS work fine with gdb and libtool; the problem was that
>>> Emacs modified the prompt that was entered by the user and what was
>>> sent to the shell, which didn't work well.  Now the command is sent
>>> verbatim.  So the next release should handle it.
>>
>> There is still the issue with finding the file name argument, which won't
>> do the right thing if "gdb" is replaced by a multi-word command.
>
> I don't understand, can you give an example?  Typing 'libtool gdb
> ./foo' at the M-x gdb RET prompt work here, if that is what you meant
> by multi-word command.

For example, the buffer will be called *gud-gdb* instead of *gud-foo*.
Also, ./foo is supposed to be expanded, and gdb be started with
default-directory set to (file-name-directory "./foo"), but isn't (of
course, the latter does not make a difference in this particular case).

Andreas.

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Re:emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Nick Roberts]

 > Emacs 21.3.1 seems to be even more convuluted regarding gdb and libtool 
 > created programs. Will GNU Emacs ever work with GNU auto-tools created 
 > programs?

I've followed some of this thread but I don't work with GNU auto-tools or
libtool, in particular. However, I am quite familiar with gud.el, so perhaps
we can work this one out together.

What is the current behaviour in Emacs?
What would you like to happen?


Nick