Question

I have a program that I’d like to debug with gdb via emacs. In order to run development versions of this program, I have a shell script that I can source that sets up the calling environment to see the right libraries, etc. What I can’t sort out is how to ask emacs/gud to source this file before executing gdb.

I’ve tried using a command like “source env.sourceme && gdb my_program”, but emacs complains that it doesn’t know what “source” means. I guess it’s not really running gdb in a shell, so these kinds of tricks won’t work.

So, how can I convince gud/emacs/whatever to run gdb in my custom environment? I’ve got a hacky solution in place, but I feel like I must be missing something.

Answer 1

What’s your hacky solution?

Why wouldn’t you just have a wrapper script that sources env.sourceme and then run gdb?

#!/usr/bin/env bash

source env.sourceme
gdb -i=mi $1