Emacs gud not working on new installation

[William M. (Mike) Miller]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:40 AM Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 10:39:11 -0500
> "William M. (Mike) Miller" wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:58 AM Ken Brown wrote:
> >
> > > On 3/4/2020 9:44 AM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote:
> > > > I installed Cygwin on a new computer last weekend. On my previous
> > > computer,
> > > > I used gud with gdb in emacs (M-x gdb) for debugging. However, on
> the new
> > > > computer it is not working. I suspect that gdb is producing output
> that
> > > is
> > > > not formatted correctly for gud to parse.
> >
> >   [...snip...]
> >
> > >
> > > I don't know whether this is an emacs problem or a Cygwin problem.
> Here
> > > are two things you can try:
> > >
> > > 1. Roll back the cygwin package to 3.0.7 to see if that fixes the
> > > problem.  If so, the problem is likely related to the pty changes in
> > > cygwin-3.1.x.
> > >
> >
> > This worked. Thanks for the tip!
>
> I guess starting emacs with:
> CYGWIN=disable_pcon emacs
> helps in cygwin 3.1.4.
>

Thanks! I will keep that in mind in case I update to a newer version of
Cygwin before this issue is addressed.

-- 
William M. (Mike) Miller | Edison Design Group
william.m.miller@gmail.com

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