At 01:54 PM 10/23/2002 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Is there a way to find out the default include path used by a compiler ? Does distutils have an API for this ?
I scanned the code but couldn't find any hint.
So far I found these defaults:
Linux: libs: /lib, /usr/lib headers: /usr/include
Depends on what you mean by "default" :-) For any given Linux system, the linker will search libraries in locations built in to the compilation system (I think your list is correct there), plus whatever's listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. Sometimes assisted or hampered by what's in /etc/ld.so.cache :-{ Headers are searched in /usr/local/include and /usr/include, plus a compiler-private directory (pathname determined by compiler version and host details). It's possible, if the compiler indeed is gcc, to ask the compiler to tell you the path to the "specs" file for that compiler which you can then examine to obtain more details than you wanted....(ahem, I've actually had to do this, please don't ask why).