[tex-live] TeX Live 2008 testing - problems downloading
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Sun Jun 29 20:10:46 CEST 2008
On So, 29 Jun 2008, Karl Berry wrote:
> I'm surprised that perl doesn't respect TMPDIR.
>
> It's not about perl, it is about our code. And yes, it should use
> TMPDIR rather than hardwiring /tmp.
It should do it ...
code from TLUtils.pm:
sub get_system_tmpdir {
my $systmp=0;
$systmp||=getenv 'TMPDIR';
$systmp||=getenv 'TMP';
$systmp||=getenv 'TEMP';
$systmp||='/tmp';
return "$systmp";
}
SO it tries first TMPDIR, then TMP, then TEMP, then /tmp ...
Best wishes
Norbert
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