On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 16:04, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I want to use the option -Bdirpath whenever I use gcc, g++, gfortran > etc., Is there any configuration file (preferably at the user level) > that I can edit so that whenever gcc is invoked it is invoked as "gcc > -Bdirpath" instead of just gcc? Write a wrapper shell script that calls gcc with all the default options you want. GCC does not support options in configuration files by design. Diego.