Date: Thu, 27 May 93 10:24:49 EDT
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: IMHW400 AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: gcc and Novell


> Would that all developers could agree on the name of the environment variable
> that points to scratch storage.  Most of the things I use look for TEMP or TMP
> (or both, in that order).  The other exception is dBASE, which uses DBTEMP or
> some such.  May I suggest adopting the TEMP-then-TMP(-then TMPDIR?) approach in
> some future release.

Hey, I just compile it.  Submit a patch for gcc.c to
bug-gcc AT prep DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu if you feel that not checking TMP is a bug.
Don't forget to include a Changelog entry or the patch may get
rejected.

DJ