where temporary files are written

[Daniel Lohmann]

Marty Leisner wrote:
> I didn't see an option to tell gcc where to write temporary files
> (in currently writes them in in the current directory).

It does? AFAIK gcc creates them in the output directory, that is, the
directory where the object file is created.

Daniel

> The way linux builds kernel modules is it runs gcc from the KERNEL
> install directory, so doing something like
> 
> make CC='gcc -save-temps'
> 
> writes the temporary files into the kernel directory...(which may be readonly).
> 
> What I'm looking to accomplish is
> 
> make CC="gcc -save-temps --temppath=$PWD"
> 
> to write temporary files into "temppath".
> 
> comments?
> 
> marty