From: Brett Leslie Porter <blp01 AT uow DOT edu DOT au>
Message-Id: <199708030057.KAA24158@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au>
Subject: Re: CD ROM drives and GCC
To: e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 10:57:28 +1000 (EST)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <33E14C25.3870@stud.warande.ruu.nl> from Elliott Oti at "Aug 1, 97 02:38:29 am"
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> Josh Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > I have noticed that, on my computer, whenever I compile a source file,
> > the CD ROM drive on my system spins up.  Not that I have a problems with
> > it, I was just wondering if anyone has any insights as to why this might
> > be happening.
> 
> I noticed the same thing on my system. My CDROM drive was the D drive
> and it was really irritating that the music CD playing in it got zapped
> everytime I started gcc up. The linker causes it (compiling to assembler
> or object code output has no effect). I searched the djgpp config files
> but found nothing. I guess the linker is looking for temp disk space.
> 
> ( BTW I have a 16K XMS ramdisk sitting between me and my CDROM, so that
> I can program and play music CD's simultaeneously. gcc links faster too,
> now. )
> 
I know its probably too simple to be correct, but your CDROM is not in 
the PATH variable anywhere is it?

Brett.