On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:17:44AM +0300, Ben Harris wrote:
  | 
  | Module Name:	basesrc
  | Committed By:	bjh21
  | Date:		Sun Apr 28 22:17:44 UTC 2002
  | 
  | Modified Files:
  | 	basesrc/etc: postinstall
  | 
  | Log Message:
  | This script is run on the host for cross builds, so it can't use mktemp -d.
  | Use a tidied-up version of my shell fragment from maketars instead.

any reason not to create a cross mktemp?  it strikes me that it's
useful enough for various scripts to use it, rather than using the
workaround that you've implemented.

luke.