Re: stdio.h's P_tmpdir definition - make it /tmp?

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> It seems that long long ago, /tmp was small and on /, and /var was often
> bigger, and people used /var/tmp for larger stuff.   Also I remember a
> notion of clearing /tmp on boot and not clearing /var/tmp.   Now, /tmp
> is a tmpfs and large/fast, and the right place for things that really
> belong in /tmp.

That's true for some people/systems.  Not true for others.

libiberty does check TMPDIR as the very first thing.  If the build
breaks that, may be the build should be fixed?

-uwe