Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:01:43 GMT
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> 
>     Probably because you saw only GNU/Linux systems.
> 
> Not so.  I looked and tried on many systems.
> BSD, Solaris, ...
> 
> As I understand it, mingw is supposed to be providing a reasonable
> GNU/Unix-ish environment.

Maybe it is, but it doesn't have mktemp.  That's a fact.

> These days (years), mktemp should surely be part of that.  Any shell
> script that wants to create temporary files safely should be using
> it, after all.

The shell is only used for running the configure scripts.  MinGW is a
native Windows environment, it doesn't need the shell once the
executables are produced.

> As you can tell, I am not enthusiastic about complicating about our
> sources with emulating something that is commonly available everywhere
> but Windows.

Too bad.  I guess I will be fine, as I have my private clone of that
command, and others will have to manage somehow.