Re: Debugging Octave (as in gdb not a script)

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 2 February 2013 18:41, Alec Teal <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 02/02/13 23:23, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> On 2 February 2013 15:14, Alec Teal <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> It's launched from a shell script, which seems to in turn launch a shell
> script. I use the Eclipse IDE and would really appreciate help in getting it
> to debug (a script that launches is something I've never worked with before
> - I've never 'needed' one or thought about it before)
>
>     http://wiki.octave.org/Debugging_Octave
>
> Tried that, I just did a find and replace in configure to turn off
> optimization, but again how do I debug the resulting BINARY file, I am
> assuming that the (at least) 2 scripts, run-octave and src/octave do
> something? Remember I am trying to debug within an ide

I normally use Emacs as my IDE. The run-octave script has an option to
start gdb with options that will work for Emacs. If you want to
suggest alternative command-line options for run-octave so that it
works with other IDEs, I will be happy to accept your patches.

- Jordi G. H.