Re: gdb-emacs : data frame/buffer.

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

Richard writes:
 > 
 > I followed the information here:
 > 
 > http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob/
 > 
 > which says all I need to do is:
 > 
 > sudo  apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk
 > 
 > and then follow the tutorial here : http://linuxjournal.com/article/7876
 > 
 > My emacs reports itself still as 21.4 though and M-gdb acts as before.

I dont think it has installed or, if both Emacs packages can be installed
at the same time, you're looking at the wrong one.

 > Has anyone updated debian recently and can advise on this please? I'm
 > not a debian/ubuntu guru and have no idea how to get emacs from the
 > command line to use the snapshot version.

I've installed emacs-snapshot-gtk on Ubuntu.  It reports itself as
emacs-22.0.50.12

If you're not behind a firewall, you might prefer to get the most recent
version directly from CVS (which really isn't much harder than downloading a
tarball):

  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs

as described on http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs

Then read INSTALL.CVS in the emacs directory for further instructions.

Once you've built Emacs you can keep updating to the new changes by doing:

  cvs up

from the emacs directory and following INSTALL.CVS.

This will also mean that you can submit up-to-date suggestions or patches to
the emacs-devel mailing list.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob