Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > It seems that long long ago, /tmp was small and on /, and /var was often > bigger, and people used /var/tmp for larger stuff. Also I remember a > notion of clearing /tmp on boot and not clearing /var/tmp. Now, /tmp > is a tmpfs and large/fast, and the right place for things that really > belong in /tmp.
That's true for some people/systems. Not true for others. libiberty does check TMPDIR as the very first thing. If the build breaks that, may be the build should be fixed? -uwe
