------- Comment #3 from mvanier at cs dot caltech dot edu 2008-11-03 07:38 ------- The operating system is Arch Linux, and the package manager is Arch-specific and is called pacman. There is a separate package manager for building packages from scratch called ABS (Arch Build System). I'm attaching their build script (called PKGBUILD). However, in this particular case I built gcc myself and installed it in /pkg/gcc.
Here is the test you asked for: > gcc --save-temps -v hello.c Using built-in specs. Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /src/gcc/gcc-4.3.2/configure --prefix=/pkg/gcc --enable-languages=c,c++,objc Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.2 (GCC) COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-save-temps' '-v' '-mtune=generic' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/cc1 -E -quiet -v -iprefix /home/mvanier/tmp/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/ hello.c -mtune=generic -fpch-preprocess -o hello.i ignoring nonexistent directory "/home/mvanier/tmp/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/home/mvanier/tmp/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/include-fixed" ignoring nonexistent directory "/home/mvanier/tmp/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/home/mvanier/tmp/../lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/home/mvanier/tmp/../lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/include-fixed" ignoring nonexistent directory "/home/mvanier/tmp/../lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/include" #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /usr/local/include /usr/include End of search list. In file included from hello.c:1: /usr/include/stdio.h:34:21: error: stddef.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:75, from hello.c:1: /usr/include/libio.h:53:21: error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory One thing that jumps out at me is that it is using /usr/include and /usr/local/include as the only locations for looking up include files. stddefs.h and stdarg.h are not there, but they aren't there in any other distro I've looked at either, so I assumed that they were somehow handled specially by gcc. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37995