I have run gdb successfully on many files on my machine. However, I recently
tried it on an executable which is part of the BRL-CAD distribution, called
mged. mged runs OK by itself, that is, outside of gdb. I'm not really
debugging it, but want to use gdb to track through it and see how some parts
run. I built the entire BRL CAD system "as issued", without any modifications
of my own.
So, I have GNU gdb 4.18, configured for 1386-redhat-linux, running on a 486DX
with 64MB RAM, > 4GB hard disk space, 64MB swap space.
When I do gdb ./mged /brlcad/db/woodsman.g (which is one way to run mged), I
get a segmentation fault immediately, apparently just on loading mged- that
is, I haven't yet told gdb to "run". Furthermore, somehow I got a warning
that the core file dumped is older than the executable.
What further info do you need to help me with this problem? I could tar up
and send you the executable, if you could promise to destroy it after
investigation- I don't have a license to re- distribute BRL CAD.