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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:25:41 -0400
From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenned AT bellatlantic DOT net>
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Subject: 1.3.2 Catch-22 in tmpnam/tmpfile with gcc -mno-cygwin
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At present, gcc option -mno-cygwin is incompatible with tmpfile and
tmpnam.  When -mno-cygwin is used, at runtime all temporary files are
put into directory "/tmp", which is incompatible with no-cygwin
operation unless a writable "x:\tmp" directory happens to exist, where
x: is the current drive.

The obvious fix would make -mno-cygwin executables sensitive to a
standard Windows environment variable such as TMP, or at least to an
ad-hoc environment variable.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
(Working from my laptop)

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