Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 11:34:33 EDT
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT athena DOT ctron DOT com>
To: martin AT cosmos2 DOT orie DOT cornell DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: gcc environment variables

>Is it possible to set the gcc configuration via a data file rather
>than environment variables.  You could place it in the same directory
>as gcc.exe (perhaps calling it GCC.CFG).  GCC.CFG would have all
>the options set using environment variables.  The reason this
>is important is that I often run out of environment space because
>of the number of environment variables gcc and other programs
>define in the autoexec.bat file.  One could be allowed to override
>the gcc.cfg using the environment variable approach.  Does this
>seem reasonable to you?

Since FSF writes gcc, and they use Unix, I doubt they would be willing
to make this change.  However, you can increase the amount of
environment space with config.sys.

You could always recompile gcc so that the defaults match your
directory structure (I think the default is /usr/local/lib/something).

DJ
dj AT ctron DOT com
Life is a banana.