It may not even be a software issue. conftest is the name autoconf uses for various short snippets of code used to test properties of the toolchain and host sys

It may not even be a software issue. conftest is the name autoconf uses for various short snippets of code used to test properties of the toolchain and host system, and if I recall correctly some of them generate code that's expected to segfault when run if some guess about the host system is wrong.