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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "checking for working mkstemp....." taking forever
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:32:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909021632.12367.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090902201312.56f86365@sacrilege>

On Wednesday 02 September 2009 16:13:12 Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:12:22 +0200
>
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:16:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis:
> > > > Hello Everyone.
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at "checking for working
> > > > mkstemp....."  for ever, what should I do.. This is a fresh install
> > > > AMD64.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in Advanced,
> > > > Ninus.
> > >
> > > I've encountered the same and didn't know how to solve it. I found out
> > > that mkstemp was some standard C function so I remerged glibc,
> >
> > mktemp is now in coreutils
> >
> > It used to be in debianutils
> >
> > Not glibc.
>
> I believe you're confusing mktemp with mkstemp, the latter being C
> function indeed - man 3 mkstemp.

You are correct and I am :-)

I even double checked to make sure I was on the right track and could have 
sworn I saw mktemp somewhere in the OPs mail...

It must be this bloody flu. Makes one's eyes work poorly...

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-02  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-01 23:13 [gentoo-user] "checking for working mkstemp....." taking forever Nick Khamis
2009-09-01 23:16 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2009-09-01 23:25   ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-02 11:12   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-02 14:13     ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-09-02 14:32       ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-01-03  6:57   ` Enrico Weigelt

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