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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "checking for working mkstemp....." taking forever
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:25:02
Message-Id: 200909021632.12367.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "checking for working mkstemp....." taking forever by Mike Kazantsev
1 On Wednesday 02 September 2009 16:13:12 Mike Kazantsev wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:12:22 +0200
3 >
4 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:16:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
6 > > > Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis:
7 > > > > Hello Everyone.
8 > > > >
9 > > > > I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at "checking for working
10 > > > > mkstemp....." for ever, what should I do.. This is a fresh install
11 > > > > AMD64.
12 > > > >
13 > > > > Thanks in Advanced,
14 > > > > Ninus.
15 > > >
16 > > > I've encountered the same and didn't know how to solve it. I found out
17 > > > that mkstemp was some standard C function so I remerged glibc,
18 > >
19 > > mktemp is now in coreutils
20 > >
21 > > It used to be in debianutils
22 > >
23 > > Not glibc.
24 >
25 > I believe you're confusing mktemp with mkstemp, the latter being C
26 > function indeed - man 3 mkstemp.
27
28 You are correct and I am :-)
29
30 I even double checked to make sure I was on the right track and could have
31 sworn I saw mktemp somewhere in the OPs mail...
32
33 It must be this bloody flu. Makes one's eyes work poorly...
34
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36 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com