portupgrade -af on FreeBSD 5.3 and I get two conftest signal

[Mike Jakubik]

Dan Nelson said:
> In the last episode (Nov 06), Zoltan Frombach said:
>> I've recently migrated to FreeBSD 5.3. I just upgraded my system to
>> the brand new 5.3-RELEASE version, and first of all, I have to tell
>> you that it works really great!! I love it! Thank you guys for the
>> great work!!
>>
>> But I run into a somewhat weird problem. After the successful
>> migration to 5.3-RELEASE from a previos 5.2-CURRENT version, when I
>> recompile all installed ports with 'portupgrade -af', I get this in
>> my system log file:
>>
>> Nov  6 16:59:54 www kernel: pid 8927 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal
>> 12  (core dumped)
>> Nov  6 17:14:16 www kernel: pid 2733 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal
>> 12  (core dumped)
>>
>> But portupgrade proceeds and seemingly re-compiles all installed
>> ports anyway (at least this is what I believe). When I look for the
>> .core file(s), I can't find any on my hard drive anywhere! If the
>> core was really dumped, then where did the .core files go? And how
>> can I find out which port(s) are causing these problems? What is this
>> signal 12 with conftest means anyway? I couldn't find anything about
>> it by Googling...
>
> #define SIGSYS 12 /* non-existent system call invoked */
>
> This is an unusual error to be getting, but it's possible that one of
> the ports you tried to install tried to check for a syscall that either

It's apache, i get these too.