Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!diemen!sol!quan From: quan@sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: question about compiling Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 91 04:44:41 GMT References: Sender: news@diemen.utas.edu.au Distribution: comp.unix.shell Lines: 13 cshort@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 :).