2011/1/2 Francesco Nwokeka <francesco.nwokeka@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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