Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:10:25 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conftest dies with signal 12 Message-ID: <44AE7961.5070802@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <44AE746E.60208@veldy.net> References: <44AE746E.60208@veldy.net>
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Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> I have seen messages like this on every FreeBSD machine that I have ever
> built. Can anybody indicate to me what this means?
>
> pid 60038 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped)
While building software which uses GNU autoconf, ./configure tries to build
and run a bunch of tiny test programs to see whether various system calls are
available and how they work, figure out sizes of variable types, look for
compilers for languages not being used by your software, and so forth.
SIG 12 means:
No Name Default action Description
[ ... ]
12 SIGSYS create core image non-existent system call invoked
--
-Chuck
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