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

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 01:38:02PM -0000, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> 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.

Right. I have various systems with /tmp being a tiny tmpfs.

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

Definitively. The $TOOLDIR gcc at least does not use TMPDIR, contrary to
regular gcc documentation. I have not checked whethere the installed compiler
gets it right.

Martin