question about compiling

[Kai Shing O'Yang]

In <quan.663309881 at sol> quan at sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) writes:

>cshort at nmsu.edu (SpamG*D lord of potted meat products) writes:
>>since my acount size is small, i would like to set up source
>>code in a /tmp then compile it into my dir. how would i do this?
>>also is the a make toggle that would delete the souce files
>>when it is done with them?

>You could make a symbolic link in /tmp to your directory.
>eg. ln -s ~/myrunfile /tmp/myrunfile

>That way, when you overwrite /tmp/myrunfile you are really
>overwritting ~/myrunfile.

>A cleaner solution would to get a large account size :).

This is a dangerous practice. If your machine crashes, you may lose
your files because /tmp is the first place to clear.
If you insist on using /tmp, I would advise to name your directory as 
.mydir because this wouldn't be deleted by rm -*.
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