Running 'ld' on a remote filesystem

[Mark Brown]

rbraun at spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>If I try to run the 'ld' linker under AIX while my working directory is
>on a remote NFS filesystem, it will die if the remote is running System V.
>'ld' tries to create a temporary file whose name is 15 characters long.
>
>Is there any way to tell 'ld' not to do this?

Yes, we have a bug in tempnam(), such that even though we *know* the 
max name length on the filesystem involved, we add a char extra by mistake. 
You aren't the first to hit this; the fix isn't through testing yet.

So you can't get ld to mend its ways, but a workaround directory should
solve the problem temporarily.

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