GCC search path

[Nathan England]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> Hi Nathan;
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org>wrote:
>
>> I am having a problem compiling X and some of the drivers. I get things
>> such as:
>>
>> ../config.h:4:25: fatal error: xorg-server.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> yet xorg-server.h is in /usr/include/xorg/xorg-server.h
>>
>> Why is gcc not searching directories inside my /usr/include directory?
>>
>> I have tried editing the config.h to point to xorg/xorg-server.h which
>> works until the next file fails... I tried adding
>> CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/xorg" which works also, but then gcc no longer
>> searches anywhere else in the /usr/include dir.
>>
>> I am at a loss. I have compiled dozens of programs on this so far and not
>> a single problem... until X. What am I missing?
>>
> What is your path?
>
>
I have not put anything in abnormal paths. X is installed using
--prefix=/usr and the include .h files are in /usr/include/xorg/...



> What is the distro and version please?
>

this is an LFS system from current svn lfs and blfs


>
> Example:
>
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/removal-of-include-linux-config-h-file-in-2-6-19-kernel-506363/
>
> Is this a package rather than compiled version of Xorg?
>
>
I am not interested in pre-compiled stuff, which is why I am compiling
myself.
I've never encountered an issue with gcc not finding any .h file in the
standard /usr/include directory before.


> Versions please?
>
> Are you compiling a VPN client against this?
>
>

no. So far, only the xf86-input and xf86-video drivers. Specifically evdev,
keyboard, mouse, joystick and intel drivers.


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