Rather than the fancy footwork you could just store the tmp output in
the final file.

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
> Noah, is the use of mktemp okay with regards to the rules for building from source?
>
> Dave, is mktemp portable in our Windows build system?
>
> Cheers
> Jan
> --
>
> On Jun 17, 2012, at 21:31 , jan@apache.org wrote:
>
>> Updated Branches:
>>  refs/heads/master 7646794ea -> d93929fdc
>>
>>
>> fix make distcheck
>>
>>
>> Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/repo
>> Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/commit/d93929fd
>> Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/tree/d93929fd
>> Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/diff/d93929fd
>>
>> Branch: refs/heads/master
>> Commit: d93929fdccb6f0fe7b205a021558c219c7fbc146
>> Parents: 7f93d33
>> Author: Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>
>> Authored: Sun Jun 17 21:08:35 2012 +0200
>> Committer: Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>
>> Committed: Sun Jun 17 21:08:35 2012 +0200
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Makefile.am |   14 ++++++++------
>> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/blob/d93929fd/Makefile.am
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
>> index 1cbd865..3ffc3df 100644
>> --- a/Makefile.am
>> +++ b/Makefile.am
>> @@ -79,15 +79,17 @@ README.gz: $(top_srcdir)/README
>>       -gzip -9 < $< > $@
>>
>> THANKS.gz: $(top_srcdir)/THANKS
>> -     sed -e 's/^#.*//' $< > $<.tmp # strip comments
>> -     sed -e '/^$$/d' $<.tmp > $<.tmp2  # strip empty lines
>> +     TMP1=`mktemp -t THANKS`
>> +     TMP2=`mktemp -t THANKS`
>> +     sed -e 's/^#.*//' $< > $TMP1 # strip comments
>> +     sed -e '/^$$/d' $TMP1 > $TMP2  # strip empty lines
>>       git shortlog -se 6c976bd..HEAD \
>>        | grep -v @apache.org \
>>        | sed -E 's/^[[:blank:]]{5}[[:digit:]]+[[:blank:]]/ * /' \
>> -      >> $<.tmp2 # inject git authors
>> -     echo '\nFor a list of authors see the `AUTHORS` file.\n' >> $<.tmp2
>> -     -gzip -9 < $<.tmp2 > $@ # zip
>> -     rm $<.tmp $<.tmp2 # cleanup
>> +      >> $TMP2 # inject git authors
>> +     echo '\nFor a list of authors see the `AUTHORS` file.\n' >> $TMP2
>> +     -gzip -9 < $TMP2 > $@ # zip
>> +     rm $TMP1 $TMP2 # cleanup
>>
>> check: dev check-js
>>       $(top_builddir)/test/etap/run $(top_srcdir)/test/etap
>>
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