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Subject: Re: gdb problem?  libraries, perhaps? 
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From: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan)
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A further update on that (now resolved) problem regarding
gdb crashes.

A similar scenario on SunOS 4.1.3 will not cause gdb to crash.
I have zsh as my default shell, I add an "exec /bin/sh" to my
.zshrc, I try to run gdb and I get no problems.  In fact,
.zshrc does *not* get executed by the shell forked by
gdb, even though I clearly have my SHELL environment variable
set to zsh. 

On FreeBSD, on the other hand, I have csh as my default, and 
"exec /usr/local/bin/zsh" on my .cshrc.  With this setup gdb
crashes since gdb's fork executes .cshrc.

Something's different about the two gdb's, but I'm not sure 
what.  

Raoul