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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 18:07:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: gcc djgpp stopped working
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On 20 May 2000, at 16:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: "Dr. J. Robert Lee" <jrl AT netcom DOT com>
> > Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:13:18 -0700
> > 
> > Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction. The directory
> > pointed to by TMPDIR had been magically changed into a file. I removed
> > the file and re-created the directory. Now gcc works just fine.
> 
> I would suggest that the function that creates a temporary file return
> some error indication, and GCC then would print a self-explanatory
> error message, instead of aborting.  That would probably allow many
> users to find the problem by themselves, instead of asking the gurus...

Tried to play with related things (breaking environment, renaming 
c:/tmp, creating  plain file with such name etc) but failed to break gcc 
and other stuff (no crashes or other weird things). For example gcc still 
used root directory for placing temporary files. 

Andris