Re: Using gdb in emacs 21 on Mac OS X 10.1.5

[Nick Roberts]

> > What version of gdb are you using?
>
> I'm using gdb 5.0 (20001113 Apple version 203 built on 11-07-2001).

This is quite old and Apple's version is slightly different from the FSF
one.

>
> After playing around with it for some time I found one problem at least.
> gud-gdb-massage-args isn't defined anymore. This function used to append
> "-fullname" to the command-line arguments for gdb.

gud-gdb-massage-args isn't defined anymore as gud.el now shows the
options explicitly. If you want the old behaviour customise
gud-gdb-command-name to "gdb -fullname" (I think).

> With the option
> source file locations are given as
>
> /somewhere/in/my/home/directory/file.c
>
> Without the option source file locations are indicated by gdb as
>
> source /somewhere/in/my/home/directory/file.c
>
> And the additional "source " throws gud.el off.
>

These are the annotations that gdb puts out. They are preceded by ^Z^Z
The fullname option (level 1 annotations) just gives the file location.
Levels
2 and 3 give the location with ^Z^Zsource and other information with
other annotations as described in the GDB info manual.

> I've looked at gdb-debug-log in the gdba case. Emacs apparently only
> receives
> gdb's startup message/version/warranty/copyright and the first prompt.
> Nothing
> else is in the log. I'll try to look at it again, but it'll probably take
> me
> a while to find the time.

Please post the full transcript. It will show why the breakdown in
communication
between GDB and Emacs occurs in this case.

Nick