>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24 Sep 2002 13:45:24 >> +0200 >> As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure we need a tmp dir at all. Paul> In other words, you're suggestiong that we should remove Paul> AS_TMPDIR and rewrite lib/autoconf/status.m4 to put its Paul> temporaries in the working directory rather than in /tmp? That Paul> would be fine with me. Yes, that's what I mean. But the shortest path is definitely to move the temp dir into `.'. Paul> As far as I can see, autoconf.texi doesn't say where "configure" Paul> puts temporary files, or what their naming conventions are. Paul> Perhaps this should be documented? (I don't offhand know Paul> exactly what the naming conventions are.) Good point. That's to put in a developper section. AFAIR we work on conftest.* only, plus a few exceptions, such as confdefs.h etc. The trap is a good place to look for these files.
