[REGRESSION] Temporary Directory Ignored

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Tue Feb 18 03:38:15 UTC 2020


On 2/16/20 1:01 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 07:01:04AM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 2/16/20 5:59 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 01:47:43AM +0100, Stephan Witt wrote:
>>>> Am 16.02.2020 um 01:25 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <forenr at lyx.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> I tried to reproduce your configuration on linux by creating a /tmpriv
>>>>> symlink pointing to /private/tmp and trying to set the temporary dir
>>>>> to /tmpriv. I did non succeed because it seems that the temporary
>>>>> directory cannot be changed and is always /tmp, whatever you set
>>>>> in Preferences->Paths->Temporary directory !
>>>> Yes, probably it’s platform specific if it’s /tmp or
>>>> /private/var/folders/1x/zm63s22x7s591xrlgm4rl9v40000gn
>>> No, this is a bug in LyX. If I write "/foobar"
>>> in Preferences->Paths->Temporary directory, the temporary dir stil is "/tmp",
>>> so I cannot verify your problem and test your patch.
>> I do not see this on stable, but I do see the problem in master. If this
>> does not ring a bell for someone, we should file a bug report. No time
>> now but I can do it later.
> Reported at https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11744

And apparenty resolved at 4debbdd6.

Riki




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