<Help> can't do 'gdb emacs'

[D. Goel]

On my primary work-machine (not a umd.edu machine), i cannot run gdb
emacs successfully.. If someone knows offhand what i am doing wrong
below, that would be very helpful.  Thanks.

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;; 2002-06-10 T14:04:10-0400 (Monday)    Deepak Goel    
Below is a session for emacs-21.2.90, run on a machine-->
~/emacs $ uname -snvrmapi
SunOS nickel 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine

i was careful to cd to the source-directory of emacs-21.2.90 (and not
some other emacs).    Om this machine, the same behavior occurred for
emacs-21.1.1 when i ran gdb from *its* source-directory. 

This failure to start emacs seems to be specific to this machine.. for
instance, On all the umd.edu machines, be they alpha's or sunOs's, i
can start emacs-21.1 under gdb-4.18 (after the breakpoints) just fine.

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| dgoel :/home/dgoel > 
| dgoel :/home/dgoel > 
| dgoel :/home/dgoel > 
| dgoel :/home/dgoel > cd emacs/src/src
| dgoel :/home/dgoel/emacs/src/src > 
| dgoel :/home/dgoel/emacs/src/src > 
| dgoel :/home/dgoel/emacs/src/src > 
| dgoel :/home/dgoel/emacs/src/src > 
| dgoel :/home/dgoel/emacs/src/src > gdb -v
| GNU gdb 5.2
| 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 "sparc-sun-solaris2.7".
| dgoel :/home/dgoel/emacs/src/src > gdb 
/home/dgoel/pub/usr/local/bin/emacs-21.2.90 
| GNU gdb 5.2
| 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 "sparc-sun-solaris2.7"...
| DISPLAY = :0.0
| TERM = dumb
| Breakpoint 1 at 0xe8798: file emacs.c, line 387.
| Breakpoint 2 at 0xcd34c: file xterm.c, line 12005.
| (gdb) set args -q -nw -no-site-file
| (gdb) run
| Starting program: /home/dgoel/pub/usr/local/bin/emacs-21.2.90 -q -nw 
-no-site-file
| procfs: init_inferior, get_traced_signals line 4745, /proc/24209: Value too 
large for defined data type.
| (gdb) c
| Continuing.
| procfs: fetch_registers, get_gregs line 3672, /proc/24209: Value too large 
for defined data type.
| (gdb) c
| Continuing.
| procfs: fetch_registers, get_gregs line 3672, /proc/24209: Value too large 
for defined data type.
| (gdb) c
| Continuing.
| procfs: fetch_registers, get_gregs line 3672, /proc/24209: Value too large 
for defined data type.
| (gdb) q
| The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
| dgoel :/home/dgoel/emacs/src/src > 
| dgoel :/home/dgoel/emacs/src/src > 
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