From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:34:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Give hint for GDB in Emacs on Mac OSX.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.93~199
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f4b360b320d8646ec33c02a215acbfbf6a1f75b;p=emacs.git

Give hint for GDB in Emacs on Mac OSX.
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diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el b/lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el
index 81a536f066b..34c13b6948f 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@
 ;;   2) Use MinGW GDB instead.
 ;;   3) Use cygwin-mount.el
 
+;;; Mac OSX:
+
+;; GDB in Emacs on Mac OSX works best with FSF GDB as Apple have made
+;; some changes to the version that they include as part of Mac OSX.
+;; This requires GDB version 7.0 or later (estimated release date June 2009)
+;; as earlier versions don not compile on Mac OSX.
+
 ;;; Known Bugs:
 
 ;; 1) Cannot handle multiple debug sessions.