From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Louis Marascio To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Environment variable to pass in options? Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 19:22:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <19971207211054.34491@dgii.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00429.html >SCO has had a similar feature in their tools for a long time. You can >stuff things in environmental flags or in /etc/default/cc. > >I thoroughly hate this feature for the very reason Jeff describes. >I have people constantly asking me "why does the compiler do XXX" >and I spend a while beating on it and say, "it doesn't". They >send a test case and say, "does too". I test their test case and >say, "does not". This is when they find out the system admin or >some other coworker added '-Obazillion -UseSomeEsotericThing' to >one of the above places and that's causing the wierdness. > >Yes, I sometimes wish my compile lines would fit on a single 80 column >screen to increase the density of my 'make' output. But after a couple >rounds of playing the above game, I get over it. Chuckle, sounds like a pain. There are, however, some instances when it could be helpful :) .. atleast from my perspective. Compile options might be making my needs to generalized. What I really want is some way to specify a path or set of paths that would have the same effect as having a bazillion -Isomedir in my compile line. I tried each of these to no avail: CPATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH, and CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH. Anything else I could possibly try? :) - - - - - Louis R. Marascio A.K.A Louis Armistead and Jim McCraken Email: lmarasci@stevens-tech.edu "We have plenty of psychological abuse ICQ: 4270107 in stock" -- Ripped from jsm