Matthias Klose wrote:
why would gdb-minimal work when gdb is not working?
Because gdb does (at least, did in the past) strange things with its tty that defeated expect. gdb-minimal does nothing fancy and uses only stdin
and stdout, not a tty.Perhaps there exists a command-line option to newer gdbs to disable this
tty thing? -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

