Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 16:40:21 -0400 (EDT)
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> 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...