Bug#498390: gdb refuses to load freshly built vlc binary on mips

2008-09-09 Thread peter green
package: gdb version: 6.8-3 severity: important I have been trying to track down the build failure of vlc on mips. The build fails with a segmentation fault when doing a test run of the newly built vlc binary. I tried to use gdb to get a backtrace of the problem. Unfortunately gdb refuses

Bug#498390: gdb refuses to load freshly built vlc binary on mips

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 06:52:39PM +0100, peter green wrote: I tried to use gdb to get a backtrace of the problem. Unfortunately gdb refuses to load the freshly built vlc binary. The binary does appear to be a valid executable as I get some output from it before it segfaults. What does