Actually it appears that a switch from -I to -i will get the "newer" gcc to do what I want (gleaned from another post by you). thanks --- John Love-Jensen <snip> wrote: > Hi Marco, > > -MM works on my machine to exclude all header files > that use brackets. > > --Eljay > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com