On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 1:16 PM Noam Postavsky <
npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> You probably just need to do
>
>    source src/.gdbinit
>
> first.  See also "Configuring GDB" in etc/DEBUG.
>

Yes, I realized that.. a bit late.. I already killed that gdb session and
started emacs rebuild.

While that was going on, I happened to read:

> It is important for the directory ‘src’ to be current so that GDB will
read the
     ‘.gdbinit’ file in this directory.

in (emacs) Checklist (from here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2009-07/msg00178.html ).

Lesson learned: "gdb ./src/emacs" is not the same as "cd src; gdb ./emacs".


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Kaushal Modi