Re: Cygwin /tmp\foo behaviour

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 07:50:00PM -0700, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:41:30AM +0930, Trevor Forbes wrote:
>>>So If I understand you correctly "/tmp\cc017659.base" should not link
>>>anyway as ld will always be looking for "/tmpcc017659.base" which will
>>>never exist?
>>
>>Nope.  You were trying to test out something by using a \ character at
>>the bash command line.  In your test case, bash ate the \ character
>>just like it would on UNIX.  The "problem" that you saw was unrelated
>>to the problem in gcc.
>
>He is not trying to test something.  The /tmp/xxxxx.base files are
>generated during X lib DLLs creation.  The ld is trying to read
>/tmp\xxxx.base which on bash returns /tmpxxxxx.base, therefore he gets
>"no such file" error.

He was testing something by typing a command in bash.  That is what I
meant.  That is why I mentioned "bash" and then talked about "gcc".  I
was trying to clarify the fact that Trevor's attempt to test the problem
by using a 'ld' command in bash was unrelated to the problem in gcc.

>With my Cygwin setup I have not seen this problem, although I do have
>TEMP, TMP and TEMPDIR in my ENV
>
>TEMP=G:\Temp
>TMP=G:\Temp
>TMPDIR=/tmp

I would guess that your TMPDIR takes precedence, then.  I'm not 100%
certain what causes the problem.

cgf