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GUD doesn't let me answer debuginfod query

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: dancol <at> dancol.org
Cc: 75298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75298: GUD doesn't let me answer debuginfod query
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2025 13:56:13 +0200

Ping! Ping!  Daniel, could you please respond?

> Cc: 75298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:15:29 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Ping!  Any additional information about this?  I'd like to make some
> progress with this issue, at least to understand what is causing it
> and why can't I reproduce this on my system.
> 
> > Cc: 75298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:09:51 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> > 
> > > From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
> > > Cc: 75298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > > Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:28:51 -0500
> > > 
> > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > >> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
> > > >> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:04:56 -0500
> > > >> 
> > > >> I'd expect to be able to answer the debuginfod query in the affirmative
> > > >> in the GUD session below, but nothing I put into the buffer seems
> > > >> acceptable to GDB.
> > > >
> > > > Which command did you use: "M-x gdb" or "M-x gud-gdb"?
> > > 
> > > The former.  The latter works fine, but doesn't integrate into Emacs.
> > > 
> > > > The former is supposed to allow you to answer the question, at least
> > > > in Emacs 30 (you didn't say which Emacs version you used).
> > > 
> > > I'm using master.
> > 
> > Then I cannot reproduce this here.
> > 
> > > > The latter doesn't ask me that question at all.  So I'm unsure
> > > > what happens in your case.  In case this is GDB-version dependent:
> > > > I tried with GDB version 12.1.
> > > 
> > > debuginfod isn't enabled in all environments, so you might not get
> > > the question.  I'm using GDB 15.1.
> > 
> > Oh, I do get asked, and I can answer either 'n' or 'y'.  But the
> > question I see is worded differently:
> > 
> >   Enable querying debuginfod servers for this session? (y or n) y
> > 
> > This question comes from gdb-init-1, in this fragment:
> > 
> >   ;; This needs to be done before we ask GDB for anything that might
> >   ;; trigger questions about debuginfod queries.
> >   (if (eq gdb-debuginfod-enable 'ask)
> >       (setq gdb-debuginfod-enable
> >             (y-or-n-p "Enable querying debuginfod servers for this session?")))
> >   (gdb-input (format "-gdb-set debuginfod enabled %s"
> >                      (if gdb-debuginfod-enable "on" "off"))
> >              'gdb-debuginfod-message)
> > 
> > It looks like in your case we fail to ask the above question before
> > GDB asks us about that, but what breaks the above assumption and
> > triggers GDB's question before we shut it up?  It could be a different
> > GDB version, I'm not sure.  I don't have GDB 15 on the GNU/Linux
> > system where I can test this.
> > 
> > Is this in "emacs -Q", btw?  If not, perhaps some customizations get
> > in the way?  Or maybe some GDB customizations?
> > 
> > Can anyone else reproduce this with the master branch and GDB 15?
> > 
> > Anyway, as a stopgap, you should be able to avoid the question by
> > customizing gdb-debuginfod-enable-setting.  If that doesn't work
> > either, it's possible that something causes GDB to ask this question
> > earlier than we anticipate, and we need to revisit this code (which
> > was tested at the time with GDB versions that asked about debuginfod).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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