Installed
programs: mktemp and
tempfile
The Mktemp package contains programs used to create secure temporary files in shell scripts.
Many scripts still use the deprecated tempfile program, which has functionality similar to mktemp. Patch Mktemp to include an tempfile shell script wrapper:
patch -Np1 -i ../mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch
Mktemp can be built with compiler warnings:
sed 's/^CFLAGS =.*/& -Wall -Wformat-security \\\
-Werror -Wfatal-errors/' -i.orig Makefile.in
Prepare Mktemp for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
--with-libc --with-random=/dev/urandom
The meaning of the configure options:
This causes the mktemp program to be installed to /bin, so it is available to other programs if /usr is missing or not mounted.
This causes the mktemp program to use /dev/urandom as an entropy source when creating temporary files.
Compile the package:
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install the package:
make install
The tempfile script does not need to be installed to /bin. Instead it can be installed to /usr/bin:
install -m 0555 ./tempfile /usr/bin/tempfile