Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:06:30 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: jwkenned@bellatlantic.net Subject: Re: 1.3.2 Catch-22 in tmpnam/tmpfile with gcc -mno-cygwin Message-ID: <20010530130630.C19066@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, jwkenned@bellatlantic.net References: <3B1510F5.8BCF31AF@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3B1510F5.8BCF31AF@bellatlantic.net>; from jwkenned@bellatlantic.net on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:25:41AM -0400 On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:25:41AM -0400, John W. Kennedy wrote: >At present, gcc option -mno-cygwin is incompatible with tmpfile and >tmpnam. When -mno-cygwin is used, at runtime all temporary files are >put into directory "/tmp", which is incompatible with no-cygwin >operation unless a writable "x:\tmp" directory happens to exist, where >x: is the current drive. > >The obvious fix would make -mno-cygwin executables sensitive to a >standard Windows environment variable such as TMP, or at least to an >ad-hoc environment variable. -mno-cygwin produced Microsoft native binaries. It uses some libraries from the mingw project, but they are not supported here. You probably want to send email to a mailing list mentioned at www.mingw.org. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple