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Re: GCC Behaves Differently for Different User?

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: John Graham <johngavingraham at googlemail dot com>
Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:54:16 -0800
Subject: Re: GCC Behaves Differently for Different User?
References: <CAFio4Ndh+oxAc-6NxoQC164-KXze6GoGVDbwbt5KEqVQ-Df19A@mail.gmail.com>

John Graham <johngavingraham@googlemail.com> writes:

> Under a new user (created for a pet project) I got a compiler error
> saying the header <stddef.h> was not found. However, when compiling as
> my "usual" username (john) gcc was able to find the header.

This implies that the new user is unable to determine the current
working directory.  Make sure that "sudo -u USER /bin/pwd" prints
something reasonable rather than, say, a "permission denied" error.

Ian

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