Re: bug #92117

[Hubert Chan <hackerhue@geek.com>]

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>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

Colin> This isn't quite ideal, because the logs are named like
Colin> /tmp/emacs3Af87, which doesn't really give information on what
Colin> package they're from.  But "tempfile" doesn't accept a --prefix
Colin> of more than 5 characters (which is IMO braindamaged behavior).
Colin> Then again, we could just store the logs somewhere else, like
Colin> /var/log/emacsen-compile.

Or use a --suffix argument, e.g.

name=`tempfile --prefix=emacs --suffix=<packagename>.log`

The --suffix argument doesn't seem to have any limits (at least not a 5
character limit).  Again, less that ideal.

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)?

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