specs

[Philip Blundell]

In message < Pine.LNX.4.10.9908042023180.18456-100000@loki.albatross.co.nz >, Kei
th Duthie writes:
>Hi, I'd like to suggest not using specs if it's a directory. For example,
>xfree86 has a directory called specs which causes egcs/gcc-2.95 to exit
>with an error message.

If gcc is trying to pick up specs from your current directory, chances are 
this is because you have some environment variable telling it to do so.  Even 
if you tell it not to use directories you will lose if you happen to have a 
*file* called `specs'.

I've never been especially convinced that following LIBRARY_PATH (or whatever 
it is) to find the specs is desirable, in fact.

p.