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I am trying to run gdb on a large executable program which consists of about
100 shared object libraries.  When I run gdb I get the following:


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(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x22a8: file ../main/main.c, line 5.
(gdb) r
Error while reading shared library symbols:
"/home/cayley/v4/libs/libmap.so.1.1": can't read symbols: File format not recognized.
"/home/cayley/v4/libs/libmat.so.1.1": not in executable format: File format not recognized.
(gdb) 



ldd successfully finds these libraries:

> ldd vb
	.....
        -lmap.1 => /home/cayley/v4/libs/libmap.so.1.1
        -lmat.1 => /home/cayley/v4/libs/libmat.so.1.1
	.....


In fact, -lmap and -lmat are the 62nd & 63rd libraries respectively linked
in.  There are 2 actual object files preceding the shared libraries:
crt0.o and main.o - thus the libraries -lmap & -lmat are the 64th & 65th
objects presumably.  Possibly the number 64 is significant - gdb can't
handle any more shared libraries past that number?

System: Sun4m
OS: SunOS 4.1.2
Gdb version: 4.6


Thanks for any help,
Allan
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| Allan Steel                          allan@maths.su.oz.au  |
| School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney |
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