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Hi! On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:29:36 -0400, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Thomas Schwinge > <thomas@codesourcery.com> wrote: > > Why would in $HOME be a better place for storing temporary files than /tmp? > > (And why that is described as a bug fix?) ÂSurely storing files directly > > in /tmp is not optimal either, but several glibc tests act this way (and > > should be fixed). ÂAnyway, OK to commit the following patch? ÂWith it, > > things look more comforting, compared to pristine glibc sources: > > I don't think we should be touching anything outside of the build directory. I might subscribe to that (even though $TMPDIR or /tmp wouldn't be uncommon, too). > > Â Â Â ÂDon't tamper with $HOME. > > > > Â Â Â Â* conform/conformtest.pl: Handle --tmpdir argument, defaulting to /tmp. > > Â Â Â Â* conform/run-conformtest.sh: Pass --tmpdir argument when invoking > > Â Â Â Âconformtest.pl > > We should default to TMPDIR if set (SuSv), otherwise /tmp As I suggested, this is a different patch, which would touch all of glibc that is using temporary files. > and the > subdirectory used should be unique to allow for multiple simultaneous > testsuite runs on the same machine (which happens often in Mentor's > build farm). As you can guess I'm well aware of that :-). That's why my patch moves the scratch directory into the build directory. GrÃÃe, Thomas
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