Re: Completion on symbols nonfunctional, gdb 7.8.1

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Jonah Petri wrote:
>
>> I'm not familiar with inputrc, unfortunately.  Can you tell me if
>> there's anything weird in there?  I have nothing in ~root/.inputrc,
>> but here's the contents of /etc/inputrc:
>
>  Me neither offhand; see readline(3) for details.  Local settings take
> precedence over global ones, so try making an empty ~/.inputrc file to see
> if the symptoms go away.
>

Thanks for the advice!  Your hints led me to readline, which seems to
be the problem.  I seem to be linking against a bad readline lib.  I
recompiled gdb with --without-system-readline, and now all is as
expected.

Thanks again.