On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 01:16:25PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Also, all files that gcc outputs are of the name a.out. I want it to > give the .out file the original name of the file, with a .out. I have > manned and discovered the -o option, whereby I can specify a filename, > but I would prefer that it would read the original filename and use > that. For instance: > $gcc mycode.c > $ls > mycode.c mycode.out > How can I encourage this behaviour? Thank you. Oh, hey, I missed this part of the question. There's a neat trick if you have GNU Make, which you do on Fedora (and just about any Linux distro). If you have a simple C program with just one source file and no special linking needs, you can do this: make mycode Note not mycode.c -- it'll automatically figure out that it can make the executable mycode from mycode.c. And you don't even have to have a Makefile! -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
