Re: gdb-ui almosts works in NT

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:29:14 -0500
> From: Jonathan Luntz <address@hidden>
> 
> I'm not usre if this classifies as a bug

IMHO, it does.

> I'm trying to get gdba
> working under NT Emacs.  Almost everything works.  One minor issue is
> that gdb-ui.el is hardcoded at one point to use "/bin/cat", so I just
> put a copy of the msys (mingw) cat.exe there.

It's wrong for Emacs to use such code, IMHO.  It should either invoke
`cat' (and let it be found along PATH), or, better, implement some
code that would eliminate the need for an external program altogether,
since `cat' is not guaranteed to be available on every platform
supported by Emacs.

It strikes me that it woyldn't be hard to eliminate the need for
`cat', since Emacs already has a means to visit files.

> The only problem is I can't
> get the program IO to run in the input/output window in emacs.  It
> runs always in its own DOS window.

What compiler did you use to compile that program?  Was that MinGW's
GCC?