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) This issue is ALWAYS with "conftest". Tom Veldhouse
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
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