conformtest tampering with $HOME

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Thomas Schwinge
<thomas@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Why would in $HOME be a better place for storing temporary files than /tmp?
> (And why that is described as a bug fix?)  Surely storing files directly
> in /tmp is not optimal either, but several glibc tests act this way (and
> should be fixed).  Anyway, OK to commit the following patch?  With it,
> things look more comforting, compared to pristine glibc sources:

I don't think we should be touching anything outside of the build directory.

>        Don't tamper with $HOME.
>
>        * conform/conformtest.pl: Handle --tmpdir argument, defaulting to /tmp.
>        * conform/run-conformtest.sh: Pass --tmpdir argument when invoking
>        conformtest.pl

We should default to TMPDIR if set (SuSv), otherwise /tmp, and the
subdirectory used should be unique to allow for multiple simultaneous
testsuite runs on the same machine (which happens often in Mentor's
build farm).

Cheers,
Carlos.