[Bug 1324901] Re: Enable colors in GCC 4.9

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

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Title:
  Enable colors in GCC 4.9

Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  GCC 4.9 supports colored diagnostics. Enabling them requires either
  using -fdiagnostics-color=auto or defining GCC_COLORS.

  Ubuntu could enable colors in gcc by default just for those users who
  already use colors for ls/grep by patching the file /etc/skel/.bashrc
  with:

  @@ -72,20 +72,21 @@
   # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
   if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
       test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
       alias ls='ls --color=auto'
       #alias dir='dir --color=auto'
       #alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
   
       alias grep='grep --color=auto'
       alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
       alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
  +    export GCC_COLORS=" "
   fi
   
   # some more ls aliases
   alias ll='ls -alF'
   alias la='ls -A'
   alias l='ls -CF'
   
   # Add an "alert" alias for long running commands.  Use like so:
   #   sleep 10; alert

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