* Bruce Korb wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:15:58PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >Which system are you on? Where is mktemp(1) from? > > This is the crux of the issue: ``Where is mktemp(1) from?'' > The code assumes that: > f=`mktemp -d -q xxxxx` > leaves the environment variable "f" containing the name of the > directory. "mktemp(1)" is not a well-established tool and the > ``-q'' option caused the one I was using to create the directory > and not echo out its name. Consequently, the code assumed that > the ``mktemp -d'' failed when it had not. So, the fix is to > either test mktemp behavior before using it or to not use it. > (BTW, the one I am using I wrote more than a decade ago. > I changed the behavior of ``-q'', but nevertheless it is not > a standard tool...) So, is your mktemp distributed at all anywhere? I mean, it's trivial to remove the `-q', as we use `2>/dev/null' anyway. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
