[arch-general] How to get colorized output during prog compilation? ( Colorgcc doesn't color gcc output )

[János Illés]

2011/1/2 Francesco Nwokeka <francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com>:
> The alias trick doesn't work when using a makefile.

Obviously.
You have to modify the Makefile.

Colorgcc is just a perl script that parses the output of gcc. gcc has
no idea about it. If you are struggling with gcc's error messages
maybe you should try clang, which provides much more user-friendly
error messages and warnings.

-- 
János