Re: [patch] don't discard previous config.log before necessary

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 13, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> wrote:

> +rm -f config.log
> +mv AS_MESSAGE_LOG_NAME config.log
> +m4_define([AS_MESSAGE_LOG_NAME], [config.log])dnl
> +exec AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD>>AS_MESSAGE_LOG_NAME])

On some systems, you can't rename an open file.

Add `exec AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD >& 2' before the `mv' and it should work.

But I suppose we need some clean-up action for conf-log.tmp.

Also, I have a slight preference for the name config.Tlog instead of
conf-log.tmp.  But maybe it's just me.

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