Re: 1.3.2 Catch-22 in tmpnam/tmpfile with gcc -mno-cygwin

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I'm not understanding this.  What is it that isn't working?  Give
examples of your environment, command line and results.

-- 
Earnie.

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