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Re: TARGET undefined in bucomm.c
Luke <hazelnusse@gmail.com> writes:
> So, am I correct in understanding that C_INCLUDE_PATH should not have
> a trailing colon, and if it does, it may wreak havoc on things in
> non-obvious ways? Might this be a bug in how gcc (or some other part
> of the build process) parses the environment variables?
In any PATH variable, a trailing (or leading) colon means the current
directory (i.e., "."). In this case it was breaking things because it
meant that the explicit -I. command line option was being discarded as a
duplicate, and so "." was being searched at the wrong point in the
search path.
Ian