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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2018-05-04 17:43:29 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2018-05-04 17:43:29 +0300 |
| commit | 58f9e15a49efc3148359ad4c889b8105183d27bc (patch) | |
| tree | df085a49e3f5e4cf766bac836f40b95d44b5182a | |
| parent | 45904142652a11ad48cb365f0c1530dc013bee20 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-58f9e15a49efc3148359ad4c889b8105183d27bc.tar.gz | |
A minor addition to etc/DEBUG
* etc/DEBUG: Add a note for macOS users who get error messages
when trying to run GDB.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/DEBUG | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/etc/DEBUG b/etc/DEBUG index ac95c7c8dc6..bd6ea74fa72 100644 --- a/etc/DEBUG +++ b/etc/DEBUG @@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ described in the node "Auto-loading safe path" in the GDB user manual. If nothing else helps, type "source /path/to/.gdbinit RET" at the GDB prompt, to unconditionally load the GDB init file. +Running GDB on macOS sometimes brings an error message like this: + + Unable to find Mach task port for process-id NNN: (os/kern) failure (0x5). + +To overcome this, search the Internet for the phrase "Unable to find +Mach task port for process-id", and you will find detailed +instructions to follow. + *** Use the Emacs GDB UI front-end We recommend using the GUI front-end for GDB provided by Emacs. With |