Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:24:03 -0500
From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Brokenness: : ${TMPDIR:-/tmp} results in empty TMPDIR variable
Message-ID: <98700000.983125443@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010225134311.A25603@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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On Sunday, February 25, 2001 13:43:11 +0100, Andreas Klemm
<andreas@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
+-----
| Another -STABLE problem:
|
| : ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}
|
| The variable stays empty.
+--->8
It should; the correct idiom is
: ${TMPDIR:=/tmp}
--
brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]
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