Loading .gdbinit from current directory fails with "auto-loading has been declined by your `auto-load safe-path'"

Question

I'm having trouble loading a .gdbinit file located in the current directory. On starting gdb, I get this:

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warning: File "/home/user1/test/.gdbinit" auto-loading has been declined by your `auto-load safe-path' set to "$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load". 

I can load the .gdbinit file in the current directory by starting gdb with:

gdb -iex 'add-auto-load-safe-path .'

as described here. but is there a way set $debugdir to include the current directory?

Trying

$ export debugdir=.
$ gdb

yields the same warning as above.

Answer 1

See http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Startup.html#Init%20File%20in%20the%20Current%20Directory%20during%20Startup

Basically, what you want is to allow loading the per-directory .gdbinit from your ~/.gdbinit. If you are not worried about the security aspects, then this works:

set auto-load safe-path .

Or, if that doesn't cut it for some reason, you can also allow loading the .gdbinit from anywhere on the system:

set auto-load safe-path /

Answer 2

In my case I had no ~/.gdbinit file. The solution was creating this file containing two lines specifying auto-load-safe-path(s).

add-auto-load-safe-path <path1>
add-auto-load-safe-path <path2>