On Mar 15, 2000, Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why use /tmp at all?
Because those commands are run at install time, when the
program/library has to be relinked for installation. In this case, we
can't assume the current directory, i.e., the build tree, is writable.
> Since autoconf is for portibility you can't really assume that /tmp
> exists.
If /tmp doesn't exist, pretty much everything breaks, unless TMPDIR is
set. And it does use $TMPDIR, so we're fine.
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