http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45850
--- Comment #5 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-10-02 18:04:00 UTC --- > my copy of GCC (under openSUSE) colors the output and let me > customize the colors. That is quite system dependent. Getting > the same stuff under non-Unix like system require more constraints > on the environment. How far should we go to emulate an IDE? So how does it work in openSUSE? Do they have patches that FSF GCC doesn't have? I really don't care about non-unix environments. Not all features of GCC work on all operating systems. And you say that you have colored output but you don't want FSF GCC to have it? Am I misunderstanding you?