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

[Ty John]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 19:15:32 +0100
Francesco Nwokeka <francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com> 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

Assuming you are using makepkg, you can change the CC variable
in /etc/makepkg.conf