Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl3

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

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.

Martin