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From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: release 2 of DJGPP port of mktemp 1.7 uploaded.
Date:	Sat, 2 Jun 2012 02:53:31 +0200

This is release 2 of the port of mktemp 1.7 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  Mktemp is a simple utility designed to make temporary file handling
  in shells scripts be safe and simple.  It is compatible with the one
  that comes with coreutils.  Because a port of GNU coreutils is not
  available but certain test suites require a mktemp program to create
  their temporary output files this tool has been ported.


  If the "-t" flag is used or implied then only the TMPDIR environment
  variable will be evaluated to determinate where the temporary file or
  directory shall be stored.  Neither TMP nor TEMP will be honored any
  more as it used to be with this flag in the previous release of this
  port.  This will avoid that POSIX centric scripts break when they try
  to unset TMPDIR to allow for another prefix or path to store the temporary
  file.  The new DJGPP specific "-T" flag will provide the old behaviour.
  Because the old port shall be considered as brocken I have decided to
  remove it.



  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================


  - The default template pattern that is used to create the default file name
    is chosen at run time depending on if LFN support is available or not.
    If LFN is available the default template "tmp.XXXXXXXXXX" will be used,
    if not then the shorter template "tpXXXXXX.XXX" will be used.  It should
    be noted that the program generates its own pattern for the default
    file name and do not use neither the mkstemp() nor mktemp() functions
    of libc and their use is not supported.
  - The tool can handle slash and backslash as directory separator.
  - By default, only the TMPDIR environment variable will be evaluated to
    determinate which directory shall be used to store the file.  If the
    variable is not set or the directory can be accessed, the current working
    directory will be used as temporary file name prefix.  This is to avoid
    breaking POSIX centric scripts in GNU packages that do not know anything
    about DOS specific environment variables like TMP or TEMP.
  - If the new DJGPP specific "-T" flag is passed, the environment variables
    TMPDIR, TMP and TEMP will be evaluated in that order to determinate which
    default directory shall be used to store the file.  If no one of the
    variables is set or no one of the directories can be accessed, the current
    working directory will be used as temporary file name prefix.

  - To build the package you will need LFN support.  I do not see any reason
    to waste my time trying to make the sources 8.3 clean.

  Please read the docs and man pages to become familiar with the program options.


  As usual all changes I have done to the sources are documented in the
  /djgpp/diffs file.




  The port has been compiled using stock djdev203 (patchlevel 2) and consists
  of the two packages that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors
  as (timestamp 2012-05-31):

    Mktemp 1.7 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/mktmp17br2.zip

    Mktemp 1.7 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/mktmp17sr2.zip


  The binaries have been produced a second time using the stock version of
  djdev204 beta library.  This package is available at ftp.delorie.com and
  mirrors as (timestamp 2012-05-31):

    Mktemp 1.7 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/mktmp17br2.zip




  Send mktemp specific bug reports to <http://www.mktemp.org/bugs/>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
  to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.
  If you are not sure if the failure is really a mktemp failure
  or a djgpp specific failure, report it here and *not* to
  <http://www.mktemp.org/bugs/>.  The author is not aware of
  what I have done.

Enjoy.

      Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>

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