trouble debugging extension

Hello, I have just gotten back into development of my extension. I was having problems because when I would test it I would get a seqfault in php, and couldn't find why I am getting this problem. I worked out how to run php from within gdb and I seem to no further ahead. here is the output that I received. --8<-- gordon@horse:~/src/rbo/librbo/phprbo$ gdb GNU gdb 6.1-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-linux". (gdb) file ../../../debian/php4-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php Reading symbols from ../../../debian/php4-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php...done. Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run ../../../debian/php4-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php -d extension_dir=.libs tests/rbo_basic.php Starting program: /home/gordon/src/debian/php4-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php ../../../debian/php4-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php -d extension_dir=.libs tests/rbo_basic.php Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' ' (ASCII=11) state=1 in /home/gordon/src/debian/php4-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php on line 4361 Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /home/gordon/src/debian/php4-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php on line 4361 Parse error: parse error, unexpected '$' in /home/gordon/src/debian/php4-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php on line 4361 Program exited with code 0377. (gdb) bt No stack. (gdb) quit gordon@horse:~/src/rbo/librbo/phprbo$ --8<-- can anyone tell me how to fix this, or the next step that I should use. Thanks. Gordon.