From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9591 invoked from network); 20 Aug 1998 13:12:54 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Aug 1998 13:12:54 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA04186; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:59:17 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:59:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808201301.OAA00745@diamond.tao.co.uk> Subject: Re: possible 3.1.4 bug - echotc To: lew@ezdzit.zko.dec.com (Paul Lew) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:01:40 +0100 (BST) From: "Zefram" Cc: pws@ifh.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <9808201235.AA01061@ezdzit.zko.dec.com> from "Paul Lew" at Aug 20, 98 08:35:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"_Rtv62.0.L11.bs1tr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4341 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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