Re: Fw: Patch for Groff-1.19

[Paul Eggert]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm forwarding this groff bug report to you since it is a problem with
> autoconf (in macro AS_TMPDIR) -- groff just uses plain autoconf macros
> for this test.

I don't see why the patch helps.  I've quoted it below.  Since the
'umask 077' is inside a subprocess, it cannot affect the umask of the
'configure' shell script itself, so the change should not be needed.

--- configure   Tue Apr 22 08:36:52 2003
+++ ../groff-1.19-new/configure Sat Jul  5 15:30:58 2003
@@ -6782,6 +6782,7 @@
 # Create a (secure) tmp directory for tmp files.
 : ${TMPDIR=/tmp}
 {
+  tmpumask=`umask`
   tmp=`(umask 077 && mktemp -d -q "$TMPDIR/csXXXXXX") 2>/dev/null` &&
   test -n "$tmp" && test -d "$tmp"
 }  ||
@@ -6793,6 +6794,7 @@
    echo "$me: cannot create a temporary directory in $TMPDIR" >&2
    { (exit 1); exit 1; }
 }
+umask $tmpumask
 
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