This isn't happening every time I compile, but it is happening more and more frequently.
extract from running make -j2 check:-
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/rebroad/src/bitcoin/make.core-onepull/src/secp256k1'
AR qt/libbitcoinqt.a
/usr/bin/ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default (see `U')
CXXLD test/test_bitcoin
/bin/bash: line 1: 8725 Segmentation fault (core dumped) /bin/bash ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -std=c++11 -Wstack-protector -fstack-protector-all -fPIE -g -O2 -g3 -O0 -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -pthread -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -static -o test/test_bitcoin test/test_test_bitcoin-arith_uint256_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-addrman_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-amount_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-allocator_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-base32_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-base58_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-base64_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-bip32_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-blockencodings_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-bloom_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-Checkpoints_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-coins_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-compress_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-crypto_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-DoS_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-getarg_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-hash_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-key_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-limitedmap_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-dbwrapper_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-main_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-mempool_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-merkle_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-miner_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-multisig_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-net_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-netbase_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-pmt_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-policyestimator_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-pow_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-prevector_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-reverselock_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-rpc_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-sanity_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-scheduler_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-script_P2SH_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-script_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-scriptnum_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-serialize_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-sighash_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-sigopcount_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-skiplist_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-streams_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-test_bitcoin.o test/test_test_bitcoin-testutil.o test/test_test_bitcoin-timedata_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-transaction_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-txvalidationcache_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-versionbits_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-uint256_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-univalue_tests.o test/test_test_bitcoin-util_tests.o wallet/test/test_test_bitcoin-wallet_test_fixture.o wallet/test/test_test_bitcoin-accounting_tests.o wallet/test/test_test_bitcoin-wallet_tests.o wallet/test/test_test_bitcoin-crypto_tests.o libbitcoin_server.a libbitcoin_cli.a libbitcoin_common.a libbitcoin_util.a libbitcoin_consensus.a crypto/libbitcoin_crypto.a univalue/libunivalue.la leveldb/libleveldb.a leveldb/libmemenv.a -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lboost_system -lboost_filesystem -lboost_program_options -lboost_thread -lboost_chrono -lboost_unit_test_framework secp256k1/libsecp256k1.la libbitcoin_wallet.a libbitcoin_consensus.a -ldb_cxx-4.8 -lssl -lcrypto -lminiupnpc -lanl
Makefile:3584: recipe for target 'test/test_bitcoin' failed