specs

[Keith Duthie]

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Philip Blundell wrote:

> 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'.
Perhaps, but in no case that I know of do we want to read a directory to
get the specs information.

> I've never been especially convinced that following LIBRARY_PATH (or whatever 
> it is) to find the specs is desirable, in fact.
I'm not, either. But presumably someone is.

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