Re: [PATCH] test: create TEST_TMPDIR for holding temporary files

Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: create TEST_TMPDIR for holding temporary files

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:28:26 -0800

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jameson Graef Rollins

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:09:00 +0200, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> +# Note: TEST_TMPDIR *NOT* exported!
> +TEST_TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/notmuch-test-$$.XXXXXX")

Hi, Tomi.  I don't think you need to do any of the variable gymnastics
if you use the mktemp --tempdir option, which uses TMPDIR if set, but
falls back to /tmp otherwise.  This functionality is in the gnu version
of mktemp at least.

jamie.
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