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From: amoss@HUJINIX.BITNET (Amos Shapira)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Help needed installing Emacs
Message-ID: <8804021047.AA17092@shum.Huji.AC.IL>
Date: 2 Apr 88 10:47:40 GMT
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Hello everyone,
On the 29th of Mar 1988, Dale Worley <compass.UUCP!worley@eddie.mit.edu> ask:
> I'm trying to install Emacs 18.50 on a Suprenum MPR, which runs Sys V
> Rel 3.1, which I'm not very familiar with.  I'm using 'make' from the
> main directory to build it.  Things work reasonably well until temacs
> tries to update the version number:
>
>     ./temacs -batch -l inc-vers
>
> I get:
>
>     *** Termination code 139
>
> This seems to be a message produced by make, not temacs.  I've never
> seen anything like it before, and I can't find any documentation as to
> what make is reporting.  Presumably something strange is happening
> inside temacs, causing it to either terminate itself or causing the
> system to terminate it, and returning this peculiar signal (?) to
> make.
>
> Note that this version of make still gives the normal message
>
>     *** Error code 1
>
> when cc reports errors, etc., so "Termination code" is something new
> and different from "Error code".
>
> Does anybody have any idea what's going on?

From a brief look in 4.2BSD Make sources, I found the following lines
(in doname.c, function docom1()):

    if( status>>8 )
        printf("*** Error code %d", status>>8 );
    else    printf("*** Termination code %d", status );

After reading wait(2) (BSD!) you can easely find that these lines mean: "If the
exit() function had a non-zero argument then print "Error code %d", were
"%d" prints the argument to exit(). Otherwise, print the termination status
of the process".

This looks to me as a situation that should generate a core dump. I don't
know SV, but if it is like BSD about core dumps, then you should type "unlimit
core" before trying to run make, then you can find where things go wrong.

--Amos Shapira

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