c++/5997: CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH not working properly

[Jorgo Bakker]

The following reply was made to PR c++/5997; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jorgo Bakker <jbakker@rssd.esa.int>
To: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,
	 gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/5997: CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH not working properly
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:14:38 +0100

 That would do the trick, thanks ;-).
 
 You may want to consider either to reimplement the build config for
 solaris or to redoc CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH etc..., as it now
 is confusing (different behavior) and misleading.
 
 Thanks for your help.
 
 Jorgo Bakker
 
 Neil Booth wrote:
 
 > Zack Weinberg wrote:-
 >
 > > It is reading the header file you asked it to, but interpreting that
 > > file as a "system header" - and on sparc-sun-solaris2.x, "system
 > > headers" get treated as wrapped in an implicit extern "C".
 >
 > In that case, would the environment variable that is now documented
 > in 3.1 and 3.2, "CPATH", work instead?  GCC has supported it for a long
 > time, it just hasn't been documented.  It treats its path components as
 > if specified with -I.
 >
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Environment-Variables.html
 >
 > Neil.