X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_BG,TW_CG,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EBB07F6.1010101@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:08:38 -0500 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gdb broken inside emacs (again? still?) References: <4EBAF428.9040508@cs.utoronto.ca> <4EBAFF80.9020604@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <4EBAFF80.9020604@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 09/11/2011 5:32 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/9/2011 4:44 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> Debugging anything within emacs is thus completely impossible at this >> time. > > cgf has already stated that this will be fixed in the next release of > gdb; see > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10/msg00564.html > Sorry, must have missed that one. Thanks for pointing me at it. > In the meantime, can't you use gdb 7.3.50-1? If you also have > problems with that release, please send detailed instructions for > reproducing the problem (starting with emacs -Q). No luck: $ cygcheck -cd | grep gdb gdb 7.3.50-1 libgdbm4 1.8.3-20 $ emacs -Q -nw M-x gdb Run gdb (like this): gdb (gdb) quit ... long time passes... C-c C-cQuit (gdb) ^D Debugger finished > P.S. If you're building your own emacs and using a Cygwin snapshot, > you'll need to apply my patch to fix the memory allocation problem > that we discussed a few months ago. You can get this by using > setup.exe to download the source for emacs-23.3-3. That would explain why emacs-bootstrap.exe keeps hanging. I'll try building from the patched source tree and see what happens. Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple