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I'm having trouble walking through emacs source code in gdb. I think I'm missing debug symbols.

Following a suggestion from https://stackoverflow.com/a/4298982/2752242, I tried:

./configure CFLAGS="-ggdb3 -O0" CXXFLAGS="-ggdb3 -O0" LDFLAGS="-ggdb3" --with-gif=no --prefix=$HOME/local/apps/emacs-24.4/

But, that didn't work.

Are there instructions on compiling with debug symbols? Thanks!

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  • This is how I'm building it, if I need to debug: CFLAGS='-O0 -ggdb -g3' ./configure --enable-checking --enable-asserts. I'm not a pro, but I'm not sure you can give arguments to configure the way you did it. Usually, those come before calling the program, and configure takes those from environment it's called with, but maybe it's something new... – wvxvw Dec 08 '14 at 17:32
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    Passing via arguments is recommended in the manual: https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Defining-Variables.html – npostavs Mar 18 '15 at 21:10

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I was able to get line numbers in gdb if I run the emacsclient binary that is produced by make that lives in emacs/lib-src. If I do make install and try to attach a debugger to the installed binary, no line numbers.

This is what worked for me:

$ CFLAGS="-ggdb3 -O0" CXXFLAGS="-ggdb3 -O0" LDFLAGS="-ggdb3" ./configure --enable-checking --with-gif=no --prefix=$HOME/local/apps/emacs-24.4/
$ make
$ gdb lib-src/emacsclient

This doesn't work:

$ CFLAGS="-ggdb3 -O0" CXXFLAGS="-ggdb3 -O0" LDFLAGS="-ggdb3" ./configure --enable-checking --with-gif=no --prefix=$HOME/local/apps/emacs-24.4/
$ make
$ make install
$ gdb $HOME/local/apps/emacs-24.4/bin/emacsclient
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