On 12 January 2011 14:07, Bill Cox wrote: > > Well, after a short nap, the thought of fixing this in gcc seems even > dumber to me, though the problem is quite real. Another tool called > before gcc could get the header and library files into a place where > they could be used. It could even be compiler independent.
gcc myprog.c $(magic-lib-installer $publicrepo) where magic-lib-installer takes care of any fetching, building and installing of the lib in $tmp, then printing the necessary -I$tmp/include, -L$tmp/lib and -lblah options for use by gcc. However it works, it shouldn't need changes to gcc.