From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Meissner To: "Steven W. Orr" Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Stoopid color question of the day. Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <20000324163644.01285@cse.cygnus.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-03/msg00653.html On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:47:40PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I just installed the whole gcc-2.95.2 package for linux and found > gcc-colorgcc. I read the docs and have no clue what it's good for except > to print colors. > > Why is this a part of gcc? It isn't part of GCC. It is part of the Mandrake (and possibly other) packaging of GCC. It for example is not on my Red Hat systems (both 6.1 and 6.2 beta). As to what it used for, it makes the GCC error messages stand out when doing a make, by printing the error messages in a different color (red I think, possibly a different color for warnings). -- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company. PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA Work: meissner@redhat.com phone: +1 978-486-9304 Non-work: meissner@spectacle-pond.org fax: +1 978-692-4482