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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 13:32:48 -0800
From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
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To: terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: /tmp or /var/tmp?
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> 	Shouldn't gcc be using /tmp instead of /var/tmp?  Making /tmp a MFS
> is a common practice.  /var/tmp shouldn't be made MFS because vi.recover is
> there.

To make gcc use /tmp by default, 'setenv TMPDIR /tmp'.  (Note, this conflicts
with pkg_add's use of TMPDIR, where you really do want TMPDIR to be /var/tmp
since /tmp is often too small for large package installs.)

							Jeffrey