Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/05/12/08:14:19
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> What is the size of the disk where TMPDIR points?
>
> Tar runs gzip via `popen', to unzip the archive; `popen' redirects
> gzip's output to a temporary file. If TMPDIR points to a RAM disk or
> any other place where there's not enough space for holding the entire
> unzipped archive, you will get this error.
>
> As a rule of thumb, you need to make sure that TMPDIR has enough free
> space to hold 4 times the compressed archive. For large packages such
> as GCC you will need about 40-50MB.
>
> This is all explained in README.djgpp file that comes with the
> distribution, btw.
It works fine now. Thanks. My TMPDIR was pointing to a RAM drive. I
changed to %DJDIR%/tmp and it solved the problem.
Prashant
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