On some systems (incl. OS X 10.6), mktemp expects an argument giving it the place to put the new temporary file. --- On my machine without this patch, make prints a message from mktemp about expecting an argument each time it is run. At some point, make got into a situation where it would print this message and exit cleanly, but not build any changed files. A "make clean" was necessary to kick it into working again. A disadvantage of this approach is that it drops an empty file into /tmp on every make run. It would be better to only create this file when doing "make debian-snapshot", but I am not sure how to do that (cleanly; my best idea is to put the build commands into a subshell and export an environment variable for the temp file). Any make/debian experts want to take a stab? Makefile.local | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.local b/Makefile.local index c94402b..6eb4b18 100644 --- a/Makefile.local +++ b/Makefile.local @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ pre-release: mv $(TAR_FILE) $(DEB_TAR_FILE) releases .PHONY: debian-snapshot -debian-snapshot: TMPFILE := $(shell mktemp) +debian-snapshot: TMPFILE := $(shell mktemp /tmp/notmuch.XXXXXX) debian-snapshot: make VERSION=$(VERSION) clean cp debian/changelog $(TMPFILE) -- 1.7.8