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Re: gud-chdir-before-run
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: gud-chdir-before-run |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:01:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Why is this option's default value non-nil? It does the wrong thing
> when the executable is not in the same directory as the sources, because
> the .gdbinit file is usually found where the sources live, so changing
> the directory starts GDB in the wrong place, and .gdbinit is not read.
Usually the .gdbinit lives where the program is built.
> In my usage, I normally type "M-x gdb" from a buffer that visits some
> source file which is compiled into the program I'm about to debug, or
> one of its Makefile's or other scripts. For this use-case, the current
> default is always wrong.
Without gud-chdir-before-run you need to M-x cd to the build directory
*before* invoking M-x gdb, which would clobber default-directory for the
current buffer.
Alternatively there should be an easy way to do M-x in a different
default-directory then the one from the current buffer.
Andreas.
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