This prevents the creation of a temporary file outside the root directory --- ./configure~ 2007-08-27 18:53:31.000000000 +0200 +++ ./configure 2007-08-27 18:54:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -3557,6 +3557,8 @@ ac_cv_sys_long_file_names=no rm -rf $ac_xdir 2>/dev/null break + else + break fi rm -rf $ac_xdir 2>/dev/null done