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diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
index 96f7d02..0c93a73 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
@@ -1172,6 +1172,19 @@ proc default_gdb_start { } {
set env(LC_CTYPE) C
+ # Don't let a .inputrc file or an existing setting of INPUTRC mess up
+ # the test results. Even if /dev/null doesn't exist on the particular
+ # platform, the readline library will use the default setting just by
+ # failing to open the file. OTOH, opening /dev/null successfully will
+ # also result in the default settings being used since nothing will be
+ # read from this file.
+ set env(INPUTRC) "/dev/null"
+
+ # The gdb.base/readline.exp arrow key test relies on the standard VT100
+ # bindings, so make sure that an appropriate terminal is selected.
+ # The same bug doesn't show up if we use ^P / ^N instead.
+ set env(TERM) "vt100"
+
verbose "Spawning $GDB $INTERNAL_GDBFLAGS $GDBFLAGS"
if [info exists gdb_spawn_id] {