gdb-5.2.1 loses command line

William A. Gatliff
2002-12-05T02:45:58Z

Guys:

Here's a wierd one, at least to me...

I just built gdb-5.2.1 for arm-elf. When I launch it, I get the (gdb)
prompt and everything. Trouble is, when I type nothing shows up. If
I do a CTRL-Z, however, what I typed shows up on the shell command line:

[bgat@mars embedded-gnu]$ arm-elf-gdb
GNU gdb 5.2.1
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-elf".
(gdb)
[1]+ Stopped arm-elf-gdb
[bgat@mars embedded-gnu]$ asdf

I'm running a RH7.3 box:

[bgat@mars embedded-gnu]$ uname -a
Linux mars 2.4.18-18.7.x #1 Wed Nov 13 19:05:27 EST 2002 i686 unknown

I've been building gdbs of all flavors for months now, never seen this
one before today. Duplicated with an m68k-elf version, and also with
5.2 and 5.1. This points to a host workstation config problem, but
I'm running a straight RH7.3 setup, and coincidentally, I up2date'd
the latest kernel last night... Curious.

Ideas?

b.g.
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Bill Gatliff
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