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

[Dan Vratil]

On Sunday, January 02, 2011 19:15:32 Francesco Nwokeka wrote:
> On Sunday 02 January 2011 18:57:02 Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 06:36:40PM +0100, János Illés wrote:
> > > Obviously.
> > > You have to modify the Makefile.
> > 
> > You can also use symlinks. By default, colorgcc creates symlinks in
> > "/bin" without informing the user (created a bug ticket [1] concerning
> > this issue btw as I don't like that way of automatically creating
> > wrapper symlinks somewhere). You can either change that or try to fix
> > your "$PATH".
> > 
> > [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22279
> 
> Just solved my issue. I created symlinks in my "/usr/local/bin" folder.
> Forum post is here in case anyone needs it:
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=867368
> 
> Thanks guys

Maybe it's just nonsense, but have you tried setting CC variable before runing 
the compilation?

Something like

export CC=/usr/bin/colorgcc 

Make should than use the colorgcc instead of gcc. 

Dan


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