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- From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
- Subject: Re: Can f77 be taught not to use /tmp?
- In-Reply-To: shmuel@mapsut.einstein.com's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 18:56:27 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:34:31 GMT
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- On Wed, 20 Jan 1993 18:56:27 GMT, shmuel@mapsut.einstein.com (Shmuel Einstein) said:
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- > Our Sparc systems have the default configuration for disk partitioning, which
- > gives us a whopping 7.25 MB for the root partition. This brilliant amount
- > makes the /tmp directory quite tight to say the least, let alone that it
- > compete's with /var/tmp. We have moved /var/tmp to another partition and
- > linked it back to /var with no problem.
-
- > It seems that f77 uses /tmp as its temporary file repository. For large
- > compilations, we run out of space. Although there is an option for allowing
- > the compiler passes to communicate via pipes, it seems that there should be
- > a way of designating the compiler's temporary directory also.
-
- > If one cannot change the compiler's temp directory, is it permissable to
- > change /tmp to point to space on another partition? I am concerned because
- > of single-user mode and various other aspects of system activity which may
- > be affected before the system has not mounted other partitions.
-
- I'm pretty sure it's in the man pages. But here it is, just use the -temp=dir
- option, and all files go there.
-
- I usually just put this in my Makefiles:
-
- F77=f77 -temp=mytemparea
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- John
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