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Re: [PATCH] paginate output of configure --help
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: [PATCH] paginate output of configure --help |
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Date: |
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:45:30 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hi William,
* William Pursell wrote on Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 08:57:50AM CEST:
> Eric Blake wrote:
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>> Furthermore, your patch still has some portability problems. For example,
>> ... you cannot rely on the existence of mktemp.
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> I don't want to consume a lot of your time answering ignorant
> questions from a newbie, but why is it that AS_TMPDIR is
> able to use mktemp?
It provides an alternative method if mktemp did not provide a name.
Cheers,
Ralf