When running configure on wine under mingw, I had problems creating secure temporary directories... The configure code has two options for creating a secure temporary directory. If the first method fails the second is used. The difficulty with the first one is that mktemp returns a Windows-style path ("C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\cscP2080") instead of a Unix-style one (/tmp/cscP2080) Since the backslashes are not escaped this then causes problems later when the temporary path is passed to sed as it cannot find C:DOCUME~1ADMINI~1LOCALS~1TempcscP2080/subs.sed This is actually because mingw/msys converts the unix-style path passed in to mktemp to a Windows-style one in the first place.
Actually mingw does not have mktemp and the reason it was finding mktemp is that the cygwin directory was in my path. Removing the cygwin path fixes this problem, but then I don't have access to bison and yacc, so configure fails
As an alternate solution, If I disallow the first of the two options on cygwin, then the tmp variable is set to /tmp/cs* and so it proceeds fine
--- configure 10 Oct 2002 17:54:27 -0000 1.349 +++ configure 11 Oct 2002 13:55:36 -0000 @@ -14315,9 +14315,17 @@ }
# Create a (secure) tmp directory for tmp files. +host_os=`echo $ac_cv_host | sed 's/^([^-]*)-([^-]*)-(.*)$/\3/'` +# disallow mktemp on mingw +case $MSYSTEM in + MINGW32*) + allowmktemp= ;; + *) + allowmktemp=yes ;; +esac : ${TMPDIR=/tmp} { - tmp=`(umask 077 && mktemp -d -q "$TMPDIR/csXXXXXX") 2>/dev/null` && + [ $allowmktemp ] && tmp=`(umask 077 && mktemp -d -q "$TMPDIR/csXXXXXX") 2>/dev/null` && test -n "$tmp" && test -d "$tmp" } || {
I thought the logical thing to check was $host_os to see if we were running mingw. But when I tried it didn't seem to work :-) Not sure if this configure is autogenerated or if this patch is applicable, but thought others trying the same thing might find this helpful...
David Fraser