I use the gentoo-2.4.20-kernel (optimized for pentium3 via the make menuconfig-switch, not modified the makefiles), glibc-2.3.2 and gcc 3.3.2 if i compile a (any) program, no matter whether i use the -g option or not, i cannot start the program in the debugger. gdb prints following error message:

(gdb) run 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 25957)]
(gdb) backtrace 
Stopped due to shared library event
#0  0x4000bc90 in _dl_debug_state_internal () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#1  0x40001b8a in dl_main () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#2  0x4000db2e in _dl_sysdep_start () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#3  0x000000e0 in ?? ()
#4  0xbffff458 in ?? ()
#5  0x2d000000 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000003 in ?? ()
#7  0xbffff4de in ?? ()
 

anyone knows whats going wrong?

post a full strace

in strace it runs...
it''s not that my program has bugs... its that I want to be able to run it in GDB

strace made 110 kBytes output... but not containing "/lib/ld-linux" anywhere in it

oh, so it only won''t run in the debugger?

have you tried running it and then having gdb attach to the already running program?