Jim Meyering wrote: > FYI, before I forget (can't investigate right now)... > > Running bootstrap for GNU parted, I saw this on fedora rawhide: > > Copying file ._bootmp/m4/xstrtol.m4 > grep: amsnippet.tmp: No such file or directory > grep: amsnippet.tmp: No such file or directory > grep: amsnippet.tmp: No such file or directory > cat: amsnippet.tmp: No such file or directory > Creating ._bootmp/lib/Makefile.am
Looks like multiple gnulib-tool invocations executing simultaneously in the same directory. Or possibly you have a daemon which constantly removes all files named *.tmp from the current directory. These are wild guesses. Notwithstanding a serious investigation. Bruno