Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX, change temp download dir from /tmp

[Doug Kaufman]

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > >> > > Set "LYNX_TEMP_SPACE" to the directory you want in your environment. 
> > >> >  
> > >> > Instead of the standard TMPDIR ?  :-( 
> > >> 
> > >> The /tmp/ directory is hardcoded into lynx at time of compilation in 
> > >> USERDEFS.H. See this extract: 
> >  
> > MHW> So should I roll up my sleeves and fix this, or will I be met with a  
> > MHW> storm of protest? 
> >  
> > I thought the point of LYNX_TEMP_SPACE was for pointing it someplace 
> > other than the system-wide temp area? 
> that was my interpretation (if I were to change that, it'd use an
> environment variable, I suppose, rather than compiled-in...)

I don't know that these are incompatible. The following few lines that
define the temp_space logic are from LYMain.c. There is already a
DOS-specific set of environment variables that take precedence over the
TEMP_SPACE variable set in userdefs.h. It should be relatively simple
to add a few lines after the #ifdef DOSPATH section and before the
TEMP_SPACE line to take variables in the desired order. I will leave a
patch to those more familiar with the unix conventions.
                              Doug

    if ((cp = getenv("LYNX_TEMP_SPACE")) != NULL)
        StrAllocCopy(lynx_temp_space, cp);
    else
#ifdef DOSPATH
    if ((cp = getenv("TEMP")) != NULL)
        StrAllocCopy(lynx_temp_space, cp);
    else if ((cp = getenv("TMP")) != NULL)
        StrAllocCopy(lynx_temp_space, cp);
    else
        {
                printf("You MUST define a valid TMP or TEMP area!\n");
                exit(-1);
        }
#else
        StrAllocCopy(lynx_temp_space, TEMP_SPACE);
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