I installed my gcc-4.0.1 Version in a non standart path, since I don't want to destroy my system consistence that is build upon a gcc 3.3.5 compiler, but I want to do some experiments first with this new branch of development. Nothing works right if I don't specify -B $INSTPATH on the commandline, which is no problem but it would be nice to find a more packaged solution. I don't understand anyway, why the compiler binary doesn't find it's subdirs where it is configured and installed with. The total clash can be experienced then, when trying to compile a C++ file with stdc++ headers. Things like sstream aren't found. I could use an include path, which works for this special case, but then I need several includepaths containing -I$I/include/c++ -I$I/c++/i686-pc-gnu-linux and possibly some more. So my question again. Is there some compact way to have the compiler search its own install directories ? It might be usefull to have some spec file that works. I might just have overseen some obvious thing while installing the compiler but I did it just as I am used to, choosing some simple configure options along with --prefix