Making a makefile from within make

[T. William Wells]

In article <epEcK#3ZjLcW=eric at snark.uu.net> eric at snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
: In <846 at splut.uucp>, jay at splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
: > I'm trying to install B news version 3, patchlevel 6 (I'm a beta tester,
: > supposedly, but I've never been able to get the stuff to compile) under
: > System V/AT. I just installed version 2.4 of the software development
: > stuff in order to fix this problem, but no soap.
:
: I wrote the code. It compiles and makes OK under Microport V/386 -- that's
: what my development box runs. Anybody know what his make termination code 139
: means?

Probably a segment violation, as in 128, a bit meaning "core dumped"
to the wait(2) function, + 11, the signal number for segment
violation.

Sounds like a bug in the make, though it is possible that a process
called by make died and make just passed the return code along.

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Bill
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