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From: wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Fred Hansen)
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Subject: Re: Trouble building the Andrew distribution
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Date: 31 May 90 14:07:00 GMT
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 30-May-90 Trouble building the
Andrew.. Cameron Humphries@cs.fli (754)

> Everything appears to go fine until:
> making (/ada/andrew/atk/basics/common)
> /ada/andrew_inst/bin/makedo  -d /ada/andrew_inst/lib -b /ada/andrew_inst/bin -o
> app.do app.o
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

> The segmentation fault comes from "ld".


One common cause of core dumps on Sun4's is a bug in the shell.

The usual way to try to get around it is to simplify the Makefile as
much as possible.  Other people have reported success by creating an
environment with as few variables defined as possible; maybe as little
as HOME, TERM, USER, PATH.

Allegedly Sun knows of the problem, but I have no evidence that suggests
they have fixed it.

Good luck, 
Fred Hansen