Re: 'whence' question and others

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 11/09/2014 10:51 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

Gentlemen,

A few questions before I start applying patches:

Does it matter if we 'make' from the Src directory vs. from it's parent?
It seems to work either way.

How often does one have to './configure'?

Rebuilding from virgin source, I ended up with a different size for zsh,
that's a bit scary, is it ok, or did I manage to farkle something? The 
new sized
build has been running without obvious trouble for several days.

Original:
-rwxr-xr-x 1  708980 2014-10-22//19:16:30 Src/Virgin/zsh*
Used for several days:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 711892 2014-11-04//19:59:26 
/usr/local/bin/zsh-test2-orig-rebuild*
Rebuilt just now:
-rwxr-xr-x 1  711860 2014-11-09//21:00:54 Src/zsh*


Where does one find function help in gcc?  I'm still using my ancient 
Borland C
manuals.

I managed to create a bit of a disaster with my 'printf()s' used for 
tracing, several
system files were trashed, which isn't exactly surprising, since so many 
files
can be open.  Would "fprintf(stderr, ..." be any safer?  What's the 
standard way of
doing that sort of thing?  I still think like a DOS man.

    utils.c:(.text+0x344e): warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, 
better use `mkstemp' or `mkdtemp'

Anything to learn from the warning?  Can it be got rid of?