I don't understand.  I have used xxgdb 1.12 for years on NetBSD (i386) and
suddenly on 1.4 it wont work.

I get a bunch of errors and can't do much of anything.  I even copied the
xxgdb-1.12 exec from my old 1.3.2 machine and it gives me the same errors
under 1.4 as the xxgdb-1.12 compiled under 1.4!

I did install xxgdb-1.12 from the packages.

Here are the errors.

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This GDB was configured as "i386--netbsd"...
(xxgdb) xxgdb error: output from "show directories
" command is not recognized.
show directories
show directories
Source directories searched: $cdir:$cwd
xxgdb error: output from "show directories
" command is not recognized.
show directories
Source directories searched: $cdir:$cwd
xxgdb error: output from "pwd
" command is not recognized.
pwd
Working directory /root/LICQ/licq-0.70f/src.
list ,main
xxgdb error: output from "info line
" command is not recognized.
info line
Line 19 of "main.cpp" starts at address 0x5208 <main> and ends at 0x5223
<main+27>.
/root/LICQ/licq-0.70f/src/main.cpp:19:353:beg:0x5208
list
list
(xxgdb) xxgdb error: output from "info line
" command is not recognized.
info line