Re: master fails to build on FreeBSD when ACL support is on

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Looking at the history of the code, the temp-file code started with
>
>     (make-temp-file target-file)
>
> which seems to me to be the result of an oversight: the original coder
> probably didn't realize that such a call would either create the temp
> file in the same directory as target-file or under /tmp depending on
> whether target-file is relative or absolute.
>
> Furthermore, later the code does `rename-file` which is an operation
> which works much better when the old name and new new are both in the
> same partition.  So I think the intention of the code was to always put
> the tempfile next to the target-file.

You're absolutely right.
It was intentional in 0f34ae2 that the tempfile be on the same
filesystem as the target file, for the usual reasons.
I had actually been meaning to mention that 785a4a1 changed that,
but never got round to it.