------- Comment #3 from tromey at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-05-22 19:11 ------- My recollection is that the special -I behavior is there because the system headers have special non-warning properties. This situation doesn't apply to -L.
> 2. Software is often compiled with configure, make, make install. How can one > force the compiler to look in /usr/include & /usr/lib first (i.e. override the > user's environment)? Generally speaking this is not a good idea. Usually people *want* their environment to influence configure, and usually if configure overrides this it means difficult to fix problems on weirder systems. I am leaving this open considering that there is still a documentation bug to be fixed here. -- tromey at gcc dot gnu dot org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tromey at gcc dot gnu dot | |org Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever Confirmed|0 |1 Last reconfirmed|0000-00-00 00:00:00 |2007-05-22 19:11:27 date| | http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31186