libtool litter

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Fri May 11 19:21:00 GMT 2001


On May 11, 2001, "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> wrote:

> With the current cvs source for the branch, I find that libtool is leaving
> an incredible amount of litter in /usr/tmp.

This is probably a shell bug.  Some shells won't clean up temporary
files created for here-documents when they terminate by `exec'ing some
other program.  This problem had been fixed in ltconfig a long time
ago, but it seems that the problems in ltmain.sh were introduced
afterwards.  I suppose this patch should fix it.  It should only
affect modes install and run, so only `make install' should behave
differently.  If you still have a build tree, could you please verify
that this patch fixes the problem?  You may want to apply the patch in
existing libtool scripts in the build tree, instead of in ltmain.sh,
to avoid reconfiguring or failing to get them updated.

Other libtool maintainers, is this ok to install in MLB
(s/ltmain.sh/ltmain.in/)?  1.4 branch too, if applicable?



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