Re: Autoconf version discrepancies

From: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew(at)hairy(dot)beasts(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autoconf version discrepancies
Date: 2000-10-09 11:45:12
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10010091242570.5569-100000@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Are there any platforms that do not have mktemp? Hard to imagine.

mktemp(1) or mktemp(3)?

The latter is pretty much universal (and dangerous too).

The former is, AFAICS, available only on some Linux and BSD.
But it's under the BSD licence, and is not a long program.
For portability's sake, it may be easier just to include it
in the distribution.

Matthew.

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