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Re: standalone cygwin programs that use "/tmp" don't work
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: Cygwin Apps List <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:38:00 -0600
- Subject: Re: standalone cygwin programs that use "/tmp" don't work
- References: <3D588AFB.9D17EC0D@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
John R. McPherson wrote:
Other than forcing users to create a "X:\\tmp" directory (or doing this
during installation) or modifying the source code for these 3rd-party
packages, is there any way to get the dll to use windows's %TEMP%
or %TMPDIR% environment variables?
You need to look into the way Cygwin handles the mount table. For your
purposes, it would probably be enough to simply set up a mount for /tmp
to point to the user's %TEMP% during your normal installation process.