Making a makefile from within make

[Eric S. Raymond]

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?
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