Re: PSPP Environmental variables

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:11:56AM -0400, James wrote:
     
     I am more than happy to recompile pspp to get this working, but what would 
need to be changed?  As I mentioned previously, I had set the TMPDIR 
environmental variable before compilation/installation, but pspp didn't seem to 
pick it up  If I need to edit a file to remove the "tmpfile()" command as well, 
I would probably need help locating it.

According to the glibc documentation tmpfile uses the P_tmpdir macro defined in 
stdio.h
So you can redefine that macro to however you want it.  (I've never tried doing 
that, but I don't see 
why it wouldn't work).
     
     As for WORKSPACE, according to the documentation online, it is an accepted 
variable, but it is ignored when the program is run.  
     
     http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#SET
     
     
          (obsolete settings accepted for compatibility, but ignored)
                  /BOXSTRING={'xxx','xxxxxxxxxxx'}
      **LIST EDITED FOR BREVITY **
                  /WORKSPACE=workspace_size
     
Hmm.  This information is definately incorrect.  At least as from Version 0.6.2 
the
WORKSPACE variable is accepted and used.    We need to update the online 
version of the
manual.

Hope this helps.

J'


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