autoconf / autoheader tmp files

[Charles Wilson]

Conrad Scott wrote:

> The wrapper scripts for autoconf and autoheader use temporary files
> that they (are supposed to) remove on exit (using trap 0).  But I tend
> to find *lots* of these directories in /tmp (e.g. /tmp/acXXXXX and
> /tmp/ahXXXXX).  Just running autoconf or autoheader with no arguments
> creates a nice example.
> 
> But I can't see what the problem is with the scripts: they set a trap
> to clean up and it looks fine to me.
> 
> Any suggestions?


Yeah, I've noticed that too.  Perhaps I outsmarted myself: the wrapper 
script never actually "exits" -- it *execs* the real autoconf/make/whatever.

So perhaps the trap doesn't get triggered when you exec.

Maybe I should rm the tmp files/dirs explicitly. before exec'ing the 
real autotool...

--Chuck