Sebastian Biallas <sb@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > My question is: Which command line switch of gcc is preferred for adding > include directories? -I > And: What's the reason that -I modifies system > headers includes? It doesn't. It just changes the search path used to find header files. If you want to do something more complex, see the documentation for -iquote and -isystem. They probably don't do what you want, but they may be instructive. Ian