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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How are Includes found? (problems with gdbm)
Date: 2 Apr 1997 14:43:45 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <333EABE7.15C4@ludd.luth.se>,
Joachim Strömbergson <watchman@ludd.luth.se> writes:
> Tja!
>
> This might be a very embarrasing question; What path variables are used
> when you compile a program in FreeBD. Let's say that I have a program
> like this:
>
> [kalle.c]
> #include <stdio.h>
> main() {
> printf("Kalle rewls\n");
> }
>
> and I compile this with 'gcc kalle.c'.
>
> Now, how does the compiler go about to find stdio.h ? Can I control
> where it should look? The specific problem I have is that I have
> installed gdbm with the ports collection. When I try to compile stuff
> that uses gdbm, they can't find it (it is in /usr/local/include).
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
You should be able to say something like
make CFLAGS+=-I/usr/local/include
or if you want the /usr/include stuff first,
make CFLAGS+=-idirafter /usr/local/include
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !