%general-entities; ]> Mktemp Many scripts still use the deprecated tempfile program, which has functionality similar to mktemp. Patch Mktemp to include a tempfile wrapper: patch -Np1 -i ../&mktemp-tempfile-patch; Prepare Mktemp for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-libc --with-libc This causes the mktemp program to use the mkstemp and mkdtemp functions from the system C library. Compile the package: make This package does not come with a test suite. Install the package: make install make install-tempfile Installed programs mktemp and tempfile Short Descriptions mktemp Creates temporary files in a secure manner; it is used in scripts mktemp tempfile Creates temporary files in a less secure manner than mktemp; it is installed for backwards-compatibility tempfile