On 24 June 2015 at 11:56, Siddhartha Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I have a custom installation of gcc 4.8.1 in my home directory. > However the include files in that installation have no extensions! > (except for tgmath.h, fenv.h, complex.h, and cxxabi.h) Which files are you talking about? Most C++ Standard Library headers do not have extensions, so that's normal. > Thus even if I include the installation include directory (for me > under include/c++/4.8.1) in C_INCLUDE_PATH, it still goes to the > system-wide gcc include files. You should never need to add GCC's own include directories to its search paths, it looks there automatically. So you're doing something wrong. > Why do the include files in the gcc install not have extensions and > will renaming them to have a .h extension fix the problem? What problem? Most C++ headers are not supposed to have extensions, so renaming them is not going to help. It sounds like you have some problem compiling something and are confused about C++ headers, but it's hard to tell. Please describe the symptoms of the problem, not what you think is causing it. What are you trying to do? What errors are you getting?
