Re: TARGET undefined in bucomm.c

[Luke <hazelnusse at gmail dot com>]

Ok this makes sense now.  Thank you for helping me figure this out.

~Luke

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> 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? ÂMight 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., "."). ÂIn 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
>



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