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Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp


From: Christian Grothoff
Subject: Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp
Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 20:41:28 +0200
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On 05/06/2018 08:34 PM, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Christian Grothoff transcribed 2.9K bytes:
>> On 05/05/2018 09:58 PM, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>>> Anyways I just had some time to work on this, could you read
>>> 5f627ce1a78f662d928fa6c73a90342d8bff5cf3 and tell me if I understood
>>> the conversation we had here and your small commit right?
>>
>> Yes, you got it perfectly right.
>>
> 
> I've changed the config files, now the problem for us in Nix and Guix
> will be that the silly maximum unix path length will be hit quiet often...
> at least for the Guix build chroot when the chroot is in 
> /tmp/guix-build-gnunet-git1.drv-0/
> 
> The $GNUNET_TMP then gives you diretories like 
> /tmp/guix-build-gnunet-git1.drv-0/gnunet/WAHTEVER-HERE/GOES/NOTHING
> where previously they just landed in /tmp iirc.
> 
> We should make it possible to set the value of GNUNET_TMP before make check,
> for example via the equivalent of export GNUNET_TMP="/tmp"; make check.
> 
> It's quiet unfortunate with the length..

Have you considered re-defining the maximum path length? Given that you
are a distro, you should be able to recompile everything necessary
(kernel, libc) with simply a larger value, right?


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