Hello, ref: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs/1426 for details. The attached implements the "hack" suggested in tdep/1426 to work around a bogus error message: A handler for the OS ABI "GNU/Linux" is not built into this configuration of GDB. Attempting to continue with the default rs6000:6000 settingsGNU gdb 2003-10-23-cvs Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ... that appears on some platforms during startup. Baring comment, I'll commit this in a few days. Andrew