Where are the c header files on my system?
Michael ODonnell
michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Tue May 19 10:01:19 EDT 2009
There are several ways to get GCC to supply the info in question along
with a blizzard of other stuff:
- Ask it to be generally verbose by adding the '-v' flag to the command line.
Maybe not enough info for your purposes but often useful
nevertheless.
- Ask it to mention each header file on the fly with '-H'.
Probably what you're looking for.
- Ask it to spew the preprocessed source code (with all preprocessor
directives including the locations of all #included files) with -E.
This one can often provide insight into mysterious or bizarre
compilation puzzles when other approaches fail, but be prepared
for large volumes of, um, stuff. I often crunch the resultant
output further with a little script, thus:
#!/bin/bash
#
# A pipe that tidies up the output of a cc -E run a little bit...
#
sed -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' -e '/^[[:space:]]*#/ { s_^_/* _ ; s_$_ */_ }' | cat -s
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