Carlos Konstanski <ckonstan...@pippiandcarlos.com> writes: > On 04/27/2010 03:40 AM, Julian Stecklina wrote: >> Carlos Konstanski <ckonstan...@pippiandcarlos.com> writes: >> >>> I am running an ncurses C++ program under GDB from within Emacs for a >>> programming assignment at school. I use the following trick to get the >>> console output redirected to an xterm so that the ncurses stuff works: >>> >>> http://cdw.sourceforge.net/documentation/emacs_gdb_ncurses/emacs_gdb_ncurses.en.html#cleaning_upa >>> >>> The problem is that I have to log into an xfce4 desktop environment to get >>> this to work. If I try it from stumpwm, I get the following message in the >>> xterm when GDB tries to send output to it: >>> >>> warning: GDB: Failed to set controlling terminal: Operation not permitted >>> >>> All things are equal except that in one case I am running xfce4, and in the >>> other case I am running stumpwm. I am running stumpwm from the saved image >>> that is built by the makefile, and I am using SBCL. >>> >>> Any ideas how I can get past this problem? >> >> I can reproduce this, but I am unsure whether this is a bug. And I can't >> really imagine how this is stump's fault. In my 2min survey (google >> "GDB: Failed to set controlling terminal") I found lots of people having >> the same problem in different scenarios. >> >> Could you file a bug? >> >> Regards, > > Thanks for taking the time to reproduce this. With whom should I file the > bug? GDB? Stumpwm?
I think the GDB people have a better overview of this. If you find a solution, don't hesitate to post your results here, though. > Do any of you regularly debug C++ ncurses apps? Is there another alternative > besides tty redirection? You can start the app in a terminal and attach to it from GDB. This is what I used some years ago. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina "It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be." Warren Buffet, World's Richest Person 2007 _______________________________________________ Stumpwm-devel mailing list Stumpwm-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/stumpwm-devel
