delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/11/05:26:37

Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:23:44 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
cc: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: / and \ in gcc2.8.1
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980510141632.1510B-100000@aditya.unigoa.ernet.in>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980511122108.19471K-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:

> 	I find that a TMPDIR variable set to (a ramdisk) d:\ causes gcc 
> to Abort! without any further messages (even with -v). Changing it to d:/ 
> removes this problem. gcc2.7.2.1 worked with d:\

Andris, it seems like GCC 2.8.1 doesn't support backslashes as well as 
forward slashes, at least in TMPDIR.  IMHO this problem should be 
corrected ASAP.  A lot of people have TMPDIR defined with backslashes.

(Btw, does GCC look at TMP and TEMP as well as TMPDIR?)

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019