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From: "Zefram" <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: lew@ezdzit.zko.dec.com (Paul Lew)
Cc: pws@ifh.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: possible 3.1.4 bug - echotc
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:01:40 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199808201301.OAA00745@diamond.tao.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9808201235.AA01061@ezdzit.zko.dec.com> from "Paul Lew" at Aug 20, 98 08:35:43 am

Paul Lew wrote:
>                                            While doing this change, I
>noticed a 'core' file in the root directory.  It is from 'conftest'.
>which is generated by 'configure'.  Any trick to debug 'configure'?

That's probably not a bug.  One of the configure tests is whether
tgetent() accepts a NULL pointer as the buffer argument.  The usual
behaviour if the answer is "no" is that one gets a segmentation fault
and conftest dumps core.  We should probably clean up the core file.

-zefram


      reply	other threads:[~1998-08-20 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-08-19 12:44 Paul Lew
1998-08-19 13:54 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-08-20 12:35   ` Paul Lew
1998-08-20 13:01     ` Zefram [this message]

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