[PATCH] configure: fix mktemp call for macOS

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Fri Jun 14 03:57:16 PDT 2019


Ralph Seichter <abbot at monksofcool.net> writes:

> The mktemp call in configure is incompatible with /usr/bin/mktemp as
> shipped with macOS, where it fails due to a missing parameter. I added
> the missing template, and the call is now working with both Apple's
> and GNU coreutils' mktemp.
>

I'm hoping Tomi will comment, but I wonder if we should do something
like

TEMP_GPG=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/notmuch.XXXXXX")

(borrowed from test/test-lib.sh). This avoids hardcoding the temporary
directory.


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