conftest dies with signal 12

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

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