>From: Ronald Khoo <ronald@demon.net>
>
>This seems to imply to me that our gcc should put temp files in /tmp
>rather than /var/tmp by default, if only to be consistent with
>our hier(7).

Additionally, if /tmp is an MFS filesystem it can significantly boost
performance while compiling.  GCC will respect a TMP environment
variable (and I currently use one to get GCC and other programs to use
/tmp) but I agree that it should be the default.

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