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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: 2.9BSD Termination codes
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 09:44:18 EDT
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> I get the message "*** Termination code 138".

That's from "make".  It means your subprocess exited with status 138.
Who knows what status 138 means..