On 26.03.2020 09:48, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:51:24AM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote: >> We should keep the change. There is no semantic justification for >> putting build-time temporary files in the directory for temporary >> files that are meant to persist across reboot. These temporary files >> _cannot_ be used if interrupted -- let alone by a reboot. > > The original bug is somewhere else though: it seems (for reasons not well > understood) that the NetBSD tools build of gcc (contrary to the installed > one and all native build gcc) does *NOT* honour $TMPDIR in env. (Somthing > broken in the ifdef maze in libberty?) > > We should fix that. My local build scripts (and the build cluster) properly > sets TMPDIR, so if that worked, the default would not matter. > Maybe we could specify TMPDIR somewhere in /etc and point to /tmp? The build of tools could be fixed independently. > Martin >
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