cygwin gdb does not pass along exported enviornment variables

[Gill Bates]

I am suprised to discover:

WEASEL:> export Var1=1
WEASEL:> x
Var1=[1]
WEASEL:> gdb -nw x
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/harold/win32_1-0/mainsail/build/bin/x.exe
ntdll.dll: No such file or directory.
Var1=[NULL]

Program exited normally.
(gdb) quit
WEASEL:>

cat x.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>



int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
        char    *env;

        env = getenv ("Var1");
        printf ("Var1=[%s]\n", env==NULL?"NULL":env);
        return 0;
}

gcc -g x.c -o x
gcc -dumpversion
2.95.3-5

Maybe the problem is due to:
  ntdll.dll: No such file or directory.
But, dunno what that means either...

Also:
bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(2)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


Anybody know what's going on? is this normal behavior for cygwin-gdb.
It certainly does not work that way under Unix... Is there a gdb
command option to say "please pass along exported variables" ?

Thanks for any help!!!