Re: [Libmesh-devel] Specifying GDB for gdb_backtrace

2015-02-09 Thread John Peterson
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Paul T. Bauman wrote: > So it looks like gdb_backtrace() makes a system() call to print the stack > trace info from gdb. Does the system() call not inherit the environment > from that which launched libMesh-based application? > > I ask because I've noticed that thi

[Libmesh-devel] Specifying GDB for gdb_backtrace

2015-02-09 Thread Paul T. Bauman
So it looks like gdb_backtrace() makes a system() call to print the stack trace info from gdb. Does the system() call not inherit the environment from that which launched libMesh-based application? I ask because I've noticed that this will hang if I have a local version of gdb loaded in my environ