Subject: Re: bug#25668: 25.1; Emacs GDBINIT file error?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 22:52:07 +0200

> From: Live System User <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:16:52 -0500
> 
>         This is what I see whe starting up GDB in Emacs:
> 
> 0. emacs -Q &
> 
> 1. M-x gdb
> gdb -i=mi /usr/bin/emacs
> 
> Current directory is /usr/bin/
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> /home/liveuser/.gdbinit:19: Error in sourced command file:
> No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/emacs...Reading symbols from /usr/bin/emacs...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) 

This is normal: your Emacs binary was stripped of any symbols, so you
cannot debug it on the source level, and all the commands in .gdbinit
are useless in that case.

If you want to debug Emacs, you need to get an unstripped binary.