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Options for Directory Search
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These options specify directories to search for header files, for
libraries and for parts of the compiler:
`-IDIR'
Add the directory DIRECTORY to the head of the list of directories
to be searched for header files. This can be used to override a
system header file, substituting your own version, since these
directories are searched before the system header file
directories. If you use more than one `-I' option, the
directories are scanned in left-to-right order; the standard
system directories come after.
`-I-'
Any directories you specify with `-I' options before the `-I-'
option are searched only for the case of `#include "FILE"'; they
are not searched for `#include <FILE>'.
If additional directories are specified with `-I' options after
the `-I-', these directories are searched for all `#include'
directives. (Ordinarily *all* `-I' directories are used this way.)
In addition, the `-I-' option inhibits the use of the current
directory (where the current input file came from) as the first
search directory for `#include "FILE"'. There is no way to
override this effect of `-I-'. With `-I.' you can specify
searching the directory which was current when the compiler was
invoked. That is not exactly the same as what the preprocessor
does by default, but it is often satisfactory.
`-I-' does not inhibit the use of the standard system directories
for header files. Thus, `-I-' and `-nostdinc' are independent.
`-LDIR'
Add directory DIR to the list of directories to be searched for
`-l'.
`-BPREFIX'
This option specifies where to find the executables, libraries,
include files, and data files of the compiler itself.
The compiler driver program runs one or more of the subprograms
`cpp', `cc1', `as' and `ld'. It tries PREFIX as a prefix for each
program it tries to run, both with and without `MACHINE/VERSION/'
(see Target Options.).
For each subprogram to be run, the compiler driver first tries the
`-B' prefix, if any. If that name is not found, or if `-B' was
not specified, the driver tries two standard prefixes, which are
`/usr/lib/gcc/' and `/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/'. If neither of
those results in a file name that is found, the unmodified program
name is searched for using the directories specified in your
`PATH' environment variable.
`-B' prefixes that effectively specify directory names also apply
to libraries in the linker, because the compiler translates these
options into `-L' options for the linker. They also apply to
includes files in the preprocessor, because the compiler
translates these options into `-isystem' options for the
preprocessor. In this case, the compiler appends `include' to the
prefix.
The run-time support file `libgcc.a' can also be searched for using
the `-B' prefix, if needed. If it is not found there, the two
standard prefixes above are tried, and that is all. The file is
left out of the link if it is not found by those means.
Another way to specify a prefix much like the `-B' prefix is to use
the environment variable `GCC_EXEC_PREFIX'. *Note Environment
Variables::.