On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 01:38:02PM -0000, Valery Ushakov wrote: > Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > > > It seems that long long ago, /tmp was small and on /, and /var was often > > bigger, and people used /var/tmp for larger stuff. Also I remember a > > notion of clearing /tmp on boot and not clearing /var/tmp. Now, /tmp > > is a tmpfs and large/fast, and the right place for things that really > > belong in /tmp. > > That's true for some people/systems. Not true for others.
Right. I have various systems with /tmp being a tiny tmpfs. > libiberty does check TMPDIR as the very first thing. If the build > breaks that, may be the build should be fixed? Definitively. The $TOOLDIR gcc at least does not use TMPDIR, contrary to regular gcc documentation. I have not checked whethere the installed compiler gets it right. Martin
