Re: autoconf 2.52 testsuite fails.

[Jack Cummings]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Could you try to do exactly the same in a newly created tmp dir with:
 
> 1. mkdir /tmp/foo, 

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$ rm -rf /tmp/foo
$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ cat >/tmp/foo/baz << _m4eof
> ^m4_
> _m4eof
$ cat /tmp/foo/baz
^m4_

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> 2. (umask 077 && mktemp -d -q /tmp/barXXXXXX).

--

$ tmp=`(umask 077 && mktemp -d -q /tmp/barXXXXXX)`
couldn't generate a unique pathname
$ which mktemp
/usr/bin/mktemp
$ tmp=`(umask 077 && /usr/local/bin/mktemp -d -q /tmp/barXXXXXX)`
$ cat > $tmp/baz << _m4eof
> ^m4_
> _m4eof
$ cat $tmp/baz
^m4_

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--Jack 

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