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Yesterday I asked a question here on how to see which files were written by an application command, and a good answer pointed me to strace. I can look for open system calls in the output of strace. This worked until today, when I tried to do this on the ./configure command, which is part of autotools.

./configure definitely creates the file Makefile

But there is no system call in the output of

strace -fF ./configure

that involves Makefile. Why?

Mark Galeck
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I tracked this down, it is because the command involves mv. In that case, there is no open call for the second operand.

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