In article <20020208181426.Q14056@dr-evil.shagadelic.org>
thorpej@wasabisystems.com wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 12:25:47AM +0000, Steve Woodford wrote:

>  > Looking back at `old' toolchain, there's a NetBSD-specific kludge in
>  > choose-temp.c which re-defines P_tmpdir to /tmp rather than the default
>  > /var/tmp from stdio.h
>  > 
>  > It would be nice if the default was, once again, /tmp to regain the
>  > advantages of using mfs.

> There is P_tmpdir documented?

Not sure, but it is mentioned in stdio.h:
> /* System V/ANSI C; this is the wrong way to do this, do *not* use these. */
> #ifndef _ANSI_SOURCE
> #define P_tmpdir	"/var/tmp/"
> #endif

> Is there any harm in changing it
> to /tmp in <stdio.h>?

I think we should change choose-temp.c (which is now in libiberty/)
like gnu/dist/gcc/choose-temp.c rev 1.2, rather than stdio.h. 
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp