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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Put tempfiles in subd
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Put tempfiles in subdir so we can clean up libtool files |
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Tue, 06 May 2014 08:36:27 -0600 |
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On 05/06/2014 07:17 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> When libtool support was added to configure, the new temporary files
> were left out of the list of files cleaned up on exit; this results
> in a lot of stale .lo files being left around in /tmp. Worse, libtool
> creates a /tmp/.libs directory which we can't easily clean up.
>
> Put all our temporary files in a single temporary directory created
> via mktemp -d, so we can easily clean it up. This has the bonus
> result that we no longer use $RANDOM (which silently expands to the
> empty string if your shell is not bash, and so is pretty useless).
>
> Note that because we now use mktemp's tempdir-finding logic rather
> than handrolling it, we no longer honour TEMPDIR (only TMPDIR).
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> ---
> I don't know why we were looking at TEMPDIR; that code was
> in there from the initial commit by Fabrice back in 2003...
>
> +
> +TMPDIR1=$(mktemp -t -d)
mktemp is not POSIX. BSD mktemp lacks -t:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mktemp&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=Red+Hat+Linux%2Fi386+9&format=html
and there are probably systems that lack mktemp(1) altogether. You'll
need to come up with a more portable alternative.
Here's what autoconf recommends (modify to fit...):
# Create a (secure) tmp directory for tmp files.
{
tmp=`(umask 077 && mktemp -d "./confXXXXXX") 2>/dev/null` &&
test -d "$tmp"
} ||
{
tmp=./conf$$-$RANDOM
(umask 077 && mkdir "$tmp")
} || as_fn_error $? "cannot create a temporary directory in ." "$LINENO" 5
ac_tmp=$tmp
The use of $$ and $RANDOM is safe (even on shells that lack $RANDOM)
because of the fact that mkdir is atomic and the umask is correctly set
prior to the mkdir.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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