From: roadraat AT aol DOT com (Nelson Fleet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: gdb hangs in shell from Emacs
Date: 8 Jul 2002 14:49:23 -0700
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I'm not sure if this post is more appropriate for the Emacs newsgroup
or this one...

I use DJGPP on Win98.   I'm getting started with GDB using version
5.1.1.  It seems to work fine when I run it under a DOS prompt.

However, I mostly use Emacs 21.2.1 as my development environment, and
GDB hangs.  I run a shell command and get a DOS command line in Emacs.
 I run a little dos batch script to set my path to start in the
djgpp\bin directory and to set the DJGPP environment variable to
djgpp.env.

I've always been able to compile C source code, so I know things are
set up alright for that, but now I want to use the debugger.  If I
start a gdb session on a file compiled for debugging I get a (gdb)
prompt, but if I issue any command Emacs hangs.  I can quit the
command and move to another window, but the file is never unlocked, so
I can't get to it from elsewhere.  Eventually, I have to reboot.

Again, it works right from an ordinary DOS command window, just not
when I use the DOS prompt under Emacs.  Any ideas?

Nelson