On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:24 AM, John Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > (this is busybox 1.19.2) > > /src/build/zlib-1.2.6/Makefile:tempfile := $(shell mktemp -u __XXXXXX) > > mktemp: illegal option: u > BusyBox v1.19.2 (2012-04-08 20:17:39 GMT) multi-call binary. > > Usage: mktemp [-dt] [-p DIR] [TEMPLATE] > > .... > > zlibs Makefile uses mktemp -u without testing if it returns a result and > then happily uses the variable to delete and create stuff. > > i don't think it's a good idea that the binary doesn't ignore (or only warn > about the wrong config on stderr) and still return some usable string to the > caller.
It doesn't return anything: $ busybox mktemp -u 2>/dev/null <nothing> $ The entire output went to stderr. None is on stdout. This is as correct handling of unknown option as it can get. > i don't think that option is hard to add btw, would probably only involve > about 5 loc. Care to send a patch if it's so easy? -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
