Edward Diener <eldlistmailingz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I see the '-o file' command line option but a specific compilation may > involve many outputs so I do not see how a single '-o file' option can > be of any use. The only time a specific compilation will have multiple outputs is the case of "gcc -c file1.c file2.c file3.c". It seems easy enough to avoid that case. > My immediate need is to place object files and final executable files > in separate directories with the final executable having a specific > name and not just 'a.out'. gcc -c -o objdir/foo.o foo.c gcc -o execdir/foo foo.o If that doesn't work, can you explain what you are trying to do and why that fails? Ian
