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Re: Enhancement to report-emacs-bug
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Enhancement to report-emacs-bug |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:08:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> writes:
> Note that you can provide a full path to the etc/DEBUG file:
> (expand-file-name "etc/DEBUG" data-directory)
Thanks, I did that in the change I installed.
> But how about providing an Emacs command to debug the crash and
> instructions on how to use it:
This is a very good suggestion -- but I think it needs a little more
work to handle cases where people already run emacs in gdb, etc.
You are welcome to work on that.
>
> If emacs crashed, try running the gdb debugger on the program
> and its core file:
>
> M-x gdb-emacs-crash
> (gdb) bt full
> (gdb) xbacktrace
>
> Then insert the *gud* buffer into this report. The file
> /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/etc/DEBUG explains how to further
> debug the crash.
>
> (defun gdb-emacs-crash (program core)
> "*Run gdb on the crashed emacs PROGRAM and its dumped CORE file."
> (interactive
> (let ((insert-default-directory t))
> (list (read-file-name "Program: "
> invocation-directory nil t invocation-name)
> (read-file-name "Core: "
> (with-current-buffer "*scratch*"
> default-directory)
> nil
> t
> "core"))))
> (gdb (format "gdb %s %s" program core)))
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk