Re: Programmin Question

[Jordan Bettis <jordanb@hafd.org>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:27:28PM -0700, Travis Davies wrote:
> I am currently writing a program C++ in which I would
> like to #include a file of my own. So at the the
> beginning of my program I wrote #include <myfile.mf>.
> 
> But when I compile the compiler gives an error message
> saying that: "myfile.mf: No such file or directory"
> 
> so obviously the compiler is looking in a directory
> for myfile.mf. but what directory? Im using RH Linux
> version 7.0.

It's searching your include path. 

There's an easy way and a hard way to fix it. The easy way is to change it
to:

#include "myfile.mf"

With quotes, and put it in the current directory OR compile it like:

gcc -I/myfile.mf/path/ -o myprog myprog.c

The hard way to do it is to leave the carots around <myfile.mf> and compile
it like this:

gcc -I- -I/myfile.mf/path/ -o myprog myprog.c
 
This way is harder because:
 A: I've never tried it and am not completly sure if it will work, just going
    out of the gcc man page and
 B: It will (according to the aforementioned man page) inhibit gcc's automatic
    checking of the current directory, which may break other things.

Anyhow, pick the method which suits you best. BTW, I know /usr/include/ is in
the default include path, I'm not sure about anything else, nor do I know how
to get gcc to show the current include path. 

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Jordan Bettis <http://www.hafd.org/~jordanb/>
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