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Use of the spelling TMPDIR for an internal make macro name causes problems with MKS 8.7

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      The j2se makefiles use the make macro name TMPDIR.

      This is an awful choice in that this is a widely accepted spelling
      for a user environment variable.

      Although the evidence is somewhat hard to find, it appears that this is
      causing some problems with MKS 8.7 on Windows, and it has caused
      other problems for anyone messing with the environment variables
      TMP, TMPDIR, and TEMP, all having to do with MKS or Windows.

      The name should be something more unique, maybe JTMPDIR or anything
      but TMPDIR.
      ###@###.### 2005-1-15 01:33:52 GMT

            ohair Kelly Ohair (Inactive)
            ohair Kelly Ohair (Inactive)
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