Re: [Valgrind-developers] valgrind: r11881 - trunk/coregrind

[Florian K. <br...@ac...>]

On 07/12/2011 02:58 AM, sv...@va... wrote:
> Author: sewardj
> Date: 2011-07-12 07:58:55 +0100 (Tue, 12 Jul 2011)
> New Revision: 11881
> 
> Log:
> Allow selection of an alternative location for temporary files at
> configure time, via the --with-tmpdir flag.  The configure.in part of
> this was mistakenly committed already in r11872 as first hunk of the
> configure.in change.  Bug 266035 comment 11.  (Kenny Root,
> kr...@go...)
> 

A related bug is 267020 which also asks for a configurable location for
temp files. There is a patch there that looks at the TMPDIR environment
variable to decide where to put temp files. So the location is
configurable at runtime which, for a user, has the advantage of not
requiring a compile step.
I'm going to rework the patch there using the logic that TMPDIR takes
precedence over VG_TMPDIR.

  Florian