Problem sending program a signal on hitting breakpoint - an anomaly?

vaxx-induced prions eating my brain!

inserting command
ignore $bpnum 1
does the trick.

replacement question: early in my gdb endeavours I tried to use libgdb.a
but got discouraged by the entanglement with other libraries it needed
linking with
such as libreadline.a.
is there any plan to make a single library available, static or dynamic?

thanks in advance.