From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>
To: jithendra nath <jithu123@yahoo.com>
Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Debugging SN source
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:26:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B9FB9DD.B69A2570@redhat.com>
References: <20010911074353.89940.qmail@web13808.mail.yahoo.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00150.html

jithendra nath wrote:
> 
> dear all,
> 
>      Why am i not able to debug SN source code with
> gdb.
> 
> when i give in command line
> 
> gdb snavigator
> 
> i get an errar like
> "not in executable format : file format not
> recognized"
>
> where as iam able to debug the executables of parsers.
> why ?

snavigator is a shell script.  
 
> how can i debug SN executable??

If you read the snavigator file you'll notice that
there is line which runs Source-Navigator from gdb.
It's commented out, but if you uncomment it and run
the script snavigator, you'll debug SN.

Ian.