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[Salman Khilji <address@hidden>]

How do I run TeXmacs in debug under Linux?  I want to understand some about 
the internals and the code.

I compiled the thing in debug under:

~/Downloads/TeXmacs-1.0.1.14-src/

the compilation created a direcory named:

~/Downloads/TeXmacs-1.0.1.14-src/TeXmacs-1.0.1.14

I also noticed that under texmacs is simply a shell script that launches 
texmacs.bin.  So I did the following:

export 
TEXMACS_PATH=/home/salman/Downloads/TeXmacs-1.0.1.14-src/TeXmacs-1.0.1.14

cd /home/salman/Downloads/TeXmacs-1.0.1.14-src/TeXmacs-1.0.1.14/bin

ddd texmacs.bin

This seems to work, but GDB seems to be severely broken in terms of tyring to 
display anything at all from the program code.  for example there is the 
"string" object....can't display it....

and then there is some tfm object referenced at load-tfm.cc:373

gdb/ddd displays useless information like:

<resource_ptr<tex_font_metric_rep>> = {...}
<No data fields>

I did not know how to properly ./configure the source, so I ./configured it 
and then manually added -g option to CFLAGS....and CXXFLAGS...and removed 
optimization settings from the Makefile manually before I compiled.

Can a developer of TeXmacs give me some pointers?  I know there must be a way 
to get gdb/ddd  recognize the internals of texmacs otherwise it would be 
impossible for me to understand it.

Salman