Re: finally getting gdb to work?

[Michael Albinus]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

> Ah another thing, I also have to debug some code which compiles only on
> a virtual machine, which I can access via ssh.
>
> Now I work on it via sshfs, but I would like to debug it directly.
> Is there some way to automate the debugging process from another
> machine (with gdbserver or tramp maybe?)?

It should run with Emacs 23.1 + Tramp. See
<http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#Remote-processes>.

Unfortunately, this is broken in Emacs 23.2, because the package
gdb-mi.el needs pty support, which is not possible with Tramp (yet).

> Thanks a lot

Best regards, Michael.