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Date:	Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:33:38 +0200 (WET)
From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP binaries of egcs-1.1.2-pre3 available for testing
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunatelly there is one problem. Hack to avoid race situations with creation
> > of temporary failes causes creating unneccessary temporary files by gpc.exe (I
> > have $TMPDIR set to RAMdisk and there is limit of number of files in root
> > directory). I should be fix it.
> 
> That's arguably your fault.  Pointing $TMPDIR or similar to a root
> directory is never a good idea, IMHO, for just that reason.  

Agree. Anyway that caused problems to appear sooner when I run GPC tests.

> I have in my AUTOEXEC, with D: the ramdisk:
> 
> mkdir d:\temp
> set TEMP=d:\temp
> 
> But it may well be worth fixing the code anyway, for other people with
> the same setup.
> -- 

I fixed this problem (had to slightly patch gpc.c) by doing the same thing 
I did earlier for gcc.c. 

Andris

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