From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compatibility problem with emacs 24.1 / GDB 6.3.50? Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:04:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339725909 6882 80.91.229.3 (15 Jun 2012 02:05:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Charles Tucker , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kaushik Srenevasan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 15 04:05:08 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SfLuL-0000jl-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:05:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfLuL-0006Yo-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfLuI-0006XD-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfLuG-0001z6-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:37755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfLuG-0001yb-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:05:00 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09sr+aN/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjEAsOJhIUGA0kiBwFugmQRAOjM4FYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="191458312" Original-Received: from 108-175-230-141.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.175.230.141]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 14 Jun 2012 22:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C712F59726; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:04:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Kaushik Srenevasan's message of "Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:42:19 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150955 Archived-At: >> Brilliant, that appears to work the way I had hoped. Is there some way of >> overriding the default location emacs checks for gdb permanently? It'll get Emacs uses $PATH, like any other program, to find the `gdb' executable, so just set your PATH accordingly. If you want a $PATH special in Emacs, you can set `exec-path' instead. Stefan