From: Martin Str|mberg Subject: Re: gdb hangs in shell from Emacs Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <86e34513 DOT 0207081349 DOT 767f0af AT posting DOT google DOT com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (NetBSD/1.5_BETA (alpha)) Message-ID: <1026169368.617766@queeg.ludd.luth.se> Cache-Post-Path: queeg.ludd.luth.se!unknown AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: 08 Jul 2002 23:02:48 GMT Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Date: 08 Jul 2002 23:02:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: queeg.ludd.luth.se X-Trace: 1026169368 news.luth.se 464 130.240.16.109 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Nelson Fleet wrote: : I'm not sure if this post is more appropriate for the Emacs newsgroup : or this one... I think this is not the wrong group. : 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? Simple. DOZE is a single-tasking OS. That have never worked in DJGPP. You just have to get used to running gdb outside emacs. Right, MartinS