From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA02411 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:26:55 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA00538; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:24:46 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:24:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199608152122.RAA15385@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.6 3/24/96 To: John Harres cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh workers list) Subject: Re: zsh-3.0.0 released In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Aug 1996 14:27:03 MDT." <199608152027.OAA10527@horseman.uwyo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:22:07 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-ID: <"hAolo2.0.K8.UMv4o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2003 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > > > After installing 3.0.0, I noticed that I had a core file in the zsh-3.0.0 > > > directory. I didn't notice any core dumps occuring. The zsh that was built > > > works just fine. Is this normal? Desirable? > > > > Do a "file core" to find out what the core is from. > > > > horseman:/usr/local/src/zsh-3.0.0# file core > core: core dump, generated from 'conftest' Looks like one of the configure tests dumped core. It's hard to tell who's fault that is. I believe you can get configure to keep a log of what it is doing. That would help to decipher which configure test is creating the problem. rc