* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:38:21PM CEST:
> On 2008-08-07 14:26:07 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > The size of the truncated file appears here. If I understand correctly,
> > the failed rename has truncated the configure.tmp file.
>
> It wasn't truncated, but copied without being flushed first.
> The problem comes from:
>
> if ($atomic_replace && !rename("$output.tmp", "$output")) {
> move ("${output}.tmp", "$output")
> or fatal "cannot rename ${output}.tmp as $output: $!";
> }
>
> in /usr/bin/autom4te. File::Copy::move tries to do a "rename" first.
FWIW, upstream Autoconf has this fix:
commit 1ee48b2c8b2b83482fccd773df08cdac66cce493
Author: Slava Sysoltsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Apr 9 10:46:08 2008 -0600
Flush buffered output before exit.
* bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Explicitly close file.
* THANKS: Update.
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2008-04/msg00026.html.
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