Set gcc to kernel header path

Set gcc to kernel header path

[Tibor Kendl]

Dear mailing list members!

I'd like to know, how do you solve this problem on your own systems. 
I've installed a linux distribution with a 2.2.18 kernel, than i've 
downloaded, compiled and installed a 2.6.2 kernel. How can i make, if i 
want to compile any application ( like Samba, Apache, KDE, etc...), the 
gcc compiler use the '/usr/src/linux-2.6.2/include' header path instaead 
of the '/usr/include' for such include directories like 'linux', 'asm', 
'asm-generic', etc...?

Yours
Tibor Kendl

Re: Set gcc to kernel header path

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Tibor Kendl wrote:

> Dear mailing list members!
>
> I'd like to know, how do you solve this problem on your own systems.
> I've installed a linux distribution with a 2.2.18 kernel, than i've
> downloaded, compiled and installed a 2.6.2 kernel. How can i make, if i
> want to compile any application ( like Samba, Apache, KDE, etc...), the
> gcc compiler use the '/usr/src/linux-2.6.2/include' header path instaead
> of the '/usr/include' for such include directories like 'linux', 'asm',
> 'asm-generic', etc...?
>
> Yours
> Tibor Kendl
>


	gcc -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.2/include

... if you are sure that's what you want. Normally, you use the
headers that your 'C' runtime library was compiled with, i.e.,
what's in /usr/include.

gcc will search the -I/path first, then do the other ones unless
you use  -nostdinc on the command-line as well. If you use
-nostdinc, you need to also put -I`gcc -print-file-name=include` on
the command line, also or else gcc won't find stddef.h, etc., which
are not in one of the "standard places".


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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