Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 02:03:52 -0800 From: brian@litzinger.com To: "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cpp: Invalid option `-L/usr/local/lib' Message-ID: <19980403020352.A765@top.worldcontrol.com> In-Reply-To: <19980402220415.44396@marso.com>; from Larry S. Marso on Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 10:04:15PM -0500 References: <19980402220415.44396@marso.com>
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On %M 0, "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com> wrote: > This error message comes up in a number of contexts. > > cpp: Invalid option `-L/usr/local/lib' > > Including failure to compile the kernel, and when I bring up X. > > What does it mean? cpp is the C compiler preprocessor. Much of C programs are made up of macros which are expanded to real C code by cpp. gcc silently runs cpp to do the macro expansion for it. (you can watch gcc invoke cpp by including the option '-v' when running gcc.) cpp does not care about linker related issues such as 'where to look for libs', so they should not be being passed to it. -- Brian Litzinger <brian@litzinger.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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