Install scripts also tend to be guilty of choosing temporary filenames
consisting of characters that are not legal on MPE.

- Mark B.

Tom Emerson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2001 12:20:05 -0400, I <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >I'm considering porting something to the HP3000 that makes use of Python.
> [...]
> >   3) one of the subordinate "Makefile"'s doesn't get built properly [it's
> >empty] so compilation just simply stops... :(
> >
>
> I found the cause: the top level "makefile" calls a routine
> called "makesetup" to build the subordinate Makefile.  This shell script
> makes use of some temporary files of the form "@rules.$$" -- the $$
> translates to my process PID [I think], but that's not the problem --
> the "@" as the leading character of the filename which appearently isn't
> legal... :(
>
> Simple solution: I've edited "makesetup" to change the temp names
> to "Xrules.$$" (and Xsed.in.$$, for that matter), now it builds
> the "Makefile"...
>
> Tom
>
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