Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/08/31/05:10:43
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> Therefore I suggested to modify DJGPP.ENV to tell TAR not to use ramdrive.
This can only be done by the users, and then they should set TMPDIR in
the environment.
DJGPP.ENV cannot handle this, since you have no idea what kind of drive
is the one where %DJGPP% points. It can be a CD-ROM, for example.
> However I'm afraid there are problems also with BASH when using pipes:
> some_cmd1 | some_cmd2
> perhaps will fail if output of some_cmd1 will not fit in drive specified
> with $TMPDIR.
This can happen (and indeed happened to me), but only on very rare
occasions. One example is the shell script used in building TeX, which
is why the README.djgpp file there says to make sure RAM disk is large
enough. Another case is when you build dictionaries for Ispell: the
monstrous shell script that is run then produces 10MB of temorary files.
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