> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:01:43 GMT > From: [email protected] (Karl Berry) > > Probably because you saw only GNU/Linux systems. > > Not so. I looked and tried on many systems. > BSD, Solaris, ... > > As I understand it, mingw is supposed to be providing a reasonable > GNU/Unix-ish environment.
Maybe it is, but it doesn't have mktemp. That's a fact. > These days (years), mktemp should surely be part of that. Any shell > script that wants to create temporary files safely should be using > it, after all. The shell is only used for running the configure scripts. MinGW is a native Windows environment, it doesn't need the shell once the executables are produced. > As you can tell, I am not enthusiastic about complicating about our > sources with emulating something that is commonly available everywhere > but Windows. Too bad. I guess I will be fine, as I have my private clone of that command, and others will have to manage somehow.
