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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 19:45:53 +0300
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Subject: Re: / and \ in gcc2.8.1
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Date sent:      	Mon, 11 May 1998 03:58:38 +0000 (   )
From:           	"Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
Subject:        	Re: / and \ in gcc2.8.1
> 
> On Mon, 11 May 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > > 	I find that a TMPDIR variable set to (a ramdisk) d:\ causes gcc 
> > > to Abort! without any further messages (even with -v). Changing it to d:/ 
> > > removes this problem. gcc2.7.2.1 worked with d:\
> > > 
> > 
> > This is true only for is TMPDIR is set to root directory of drive (not necesarily 
> > ramdisk) and backslash is used ('TMPDIR=d:\tmp' works Ok). 
> 
> May I add two points:
> 
> 1) The same problem occurs even if the backslash is omitted completely. I 
> mean:
> 
> TMPDIR=d:
> in AUTOEXEC.BAT also causes gcc to silently "Abort!"

gcc tries to look if directory d: exist 
	access("D:",R_OK+W_OK+X_OK)
and access fails. Therefore gcc looks for environment parameters TMP
and TEMP and You perhaps have variable TMP which point to
D:\  (or root directory of some other drive) so the result does not change. 

A temporary workaround for this problem could be specifying
   TMPDIR=D:/

> 
> 2) The -v option gives no indication that TMPDIR is invalid 
> (something that happens with 2.7.2.1) since it merely prints out the 
> location of the specs and dies. 
> 

If You want to test fixed (I hope) executables You can get them (only
gcc.exe, gxx.exe and cpp.exe) from URL
	http://www.lanet.lv/~pavenis/gccfix.zip
Please replace executables from gcc281b.zip with ones from  this archive.
Don't forget to copy new ccp.exe into $DJDIR/lib/lib-gcc/djgpp/2.81 but NOT
in $DJDIR/bin

Andris