From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: <Damian Y> Re: It's back, but the ...
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> A lightbulb goes off in my head:  Change the DJGPP version of GCC so
> that if it doesn't find a DJGPP environment variable, treat it as
>   set DJGPP=[executable's directory]/../DJGPP.ENV

I think this is a good idea.  Especially since some programs already
do this: those which use the Kpathsea library to search for auxiliary
files (TeX, dvips, and the other TeX-related programs).  They define a
special environment variable (called SELFAUTODIR) whose value is the
directory where the program lives, and then reference various other
directories relative to that one.

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