(try) core dumps

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:38 , Tommi Lätti wrote:

> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Probably part of a port build..the configure scripts sometimes
>> deliberately induce core dumps to test various things.  i.e. nothing
>> to worry about, if so.
>
> Hmm, thanks. There was actually perl getting updated at that point.

Heh.  Yes, while autoconf uses "conftest" for its test executables,  
Metaconfig (which I think only perl uses at this point) uses "try".

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