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Date:      Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:13:34 -0500
From:      "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: conftest dies with signal 12
Message-ID:  <44AE7A1E.20500@veldy.net>
In-Reply-To: <44AE7961.5070802@mac.com>
References:  <44AE746E.60208@veldy.net> <44AE7961.5070802@mac.com>

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Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 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
>
Ah ... thanks.  I should have attempted to lookup what that meant myself 
before posting to the list.

Thank you.

Tom Veldhouse





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