From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 7 15:10:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AB116A4DD for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:10:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7157043D5D for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:10:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33205EE3; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:10:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KDx0vvKjq9rU; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:10:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-161-117-245.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.117.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF345C35; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:10:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44AE7961.5070802@mac.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:10:25 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" References: <44AE746E.60208@veldy.net> In-Reply-To: <44AE746E.60208@veldy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conftest dies with signal 12 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:10:34 -0000 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