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List:       autoconf
Subject:    Re: Dependency tracking not working on macOS
From:       "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler () dwheeler ! com>
Date:       2022-10-28 15:52:08
Message-ID: 4995E4E6-6C1C-4F54-8325-BEEA8F455F5E () dwheeler ! com
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> On Oct 28, 2022, at 11:32 AM, Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> wrote:
> The error tells you that when make started it found the TMPDIR
> environment variable was set to that path.  Then when make tried to
> access that path, it did not exist.
> 
> In this release you can see that if we can't use the TMPDIR value, we
> fall back to a default value.  I'm not sure this is correct; there's an
> argument to be made that if the user's requested location for a
> temporary directory cannot be used then we should exit and should not
> pick a different one behind their back.  I'm undecided about this.

Another option is to quietly try to create the TMPDIR directory like "mkdir -p".
The user specifically requested it, so it makes sense to try to honor it.

--- David A. Wheeler


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