+ # we should never specify -I/usr/include on the compiler command line: this
+ # is at best useless and at worst breaks compilation on the systems where
+ # the system headers are non-ANSI because gcc works around this by storing
+ # the ANSI-fied versions of them in its private directory which is searched
+ # after all the directories on the cmd line.
+ #
+ # the situation is a bit more complicated with -I/usr/local/include: again,
+ # it shouldn't be specified with gcc which looks there by default anyhow
+ # and gives warnings (at least 3.1 does) if it is specified explicitly --
+ # but this -I switch *is* needed for the other compilers
+ #
+ # note that we assume that if we use GNU cc we also use GNU c++ and vice
+ # versa, i.e. this won't work (either for --cflags or --cxxflags) if GNU C
+ # compiler and non-GNU C++ compiler are used or vice versa -- we'll fix
+ # this when/if anybody complains about it