Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The --suffix argument doesn't seem to have any limits (at least not > a 5 character limit). Again, less that ideal.
Well, using --suffix is definitely an improvement. Maybe what we could do is use the prefix for the emacsen flavor, and the suffix for the package name, like: tempfile --prefix=`echo $FLAVOR | sed -e s/emacs/e/`- --suffix=-compile-$PACKAGE This is still kind of ugly though. > As an additional comment, I usually ignore the compilation output, > unless something went wrong. Would it be possible to add an > additional configuration parameter (maybe on a per-emacs-version > basis, since someone may want to ignore the logs from the stable > emacs20, but want to check out the logs from the pre-release > emacs21) to delete or keep the logs (or keep only on error)? I would think that the fact that they're stored in /tmp is good enough; if you want to see the log for a particular compilation, just copy to a safe location. If you don't, well then it will get removed at some point, by tmpreaper or a reboot or whatever.
