Edward Diener<eldlistmailingz@tropicsoft.com> writes:
I see the '-o file' command line option but a specific compilation may
involve many outputs so I do not see how a single '-o file' option can
be of any use.
The only time a specific compilation will have multiple outputs is the
case of "gcc -c file1.c file2.c file3.c". It seems easy enough to avoid
that case.
My immediate need is to place object files and final executable files
in separate directories with the final executable having a specific
name and not just 'a.out'.
gcc -c -o objdir/foo.o foo.c
gcc -o execdir/foo foo.o
If that doesn't work, can you explain what you are trying to do and why
that fails?