linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch

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Date:	Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:07:19 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Horst Schirmeier <horst@...irmeier.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, jpdenheijer@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dsd@...too.org, draconx@...il.com,
	kernel@...too.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch

On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:07, Horst Schirmeier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch (-mm patches) is
> implemented faultily and fails in its intention to put temporary files
> in $TMPDIR (or /tmp by default).
>
> This is the code as it results from the patch:
>
> ASTMP = $(shell mktemp ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/asXXXXXX)

I'm still against mktemp. It eats random entropy and
temporary files should be in the objdir, not in /tmp

-Andi
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