Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:59:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
cc: Josh Rubin <jlrubin AT bway DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Possible cause for "gcc just hangs"
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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:

> Perhaps We were not very correct when talking about missing 
> definition of %DJGPP% only. We'll get the same effect if the definition
> of %DJDIR% will be missing in this file or %DJGPP% will point 
> to non-existant or invalid file. So there is more possibilities to get
> this problem.

I can't judge this, since I didn't see the offending code.  If it's 
compact enough, maybe it's a good idea to post it, so we could discuss 
the various possibilities to fix it.

> Such fall back then should be added also for cpp.exe and possibly 
> to other executables. 

Not necessarily.  If GCC finds the correct directory, it could change 
DJDIR in the environment before invoking the other programs.