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Re: possible 3.1.4 bug - echotc

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From: "Zefram" <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: possible 3.1.4 bug - echotc
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:01:40 +0100 (BST)
Cc: pws@xxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <9808201235.AA01061@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

References:
- Re: possible 3.1.4 bug - echotc
  - From: Paul Lew

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