Where does gcc look for C and C++ header files?

Question

On a Unix system, where does gcc look for header files?

I spent a little time this morning looking for some system header files, so I thought this would be good info

Answer 1

One could view the (additional) include path for a C program from bash by checking out the following:

echo $C_INCLUDE_PATH

If this is empty, it could be modified to add default include locations, by:

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$C_INCLUDE_PATH:/usr/include