Hi Victor: Try setting TERM to a color terminal, e.g., xterm-color or xterm-256color and see if that helps. I use xterm-256color inside tmux and it works fine.
hth... don On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Victor via cfe-users < cfe-users@lists.llvm.org> wrote: > I'm using command like this: > > $ clang++ prg.cpp > > My Clang is built from sources. What libraries it needs to use colors > automatically? Or may be there is some option that I can specify for > configure? > > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 19:49:21 -0700 > Richard Trieu <rtr...@google.com> wrote: > >> Are you invoking Clang with "clang foo.cc" or "clang -cc1 foo.cc"? The >> first should detect if you have a color capable terminal and automatically >> turn on color diagnostics while the second needs the flag explicitly. The >> other possibility is that the Clang you are using was compiled with the >> libraries needed to detect a color terminal, and defaults to no color. >> >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Victor via cfe-users < >> cfe-users@lists.llvm.org> wrote: >> >> Hello, all. >>> >>> Why doesn't clang use colors for diagnostics by default? >>> My environment: >>> >>> $ cat /etc/*-release >>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) >>> >>> $ echo $TERM >>> xterm >>> >>> Doc here >>> http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#formatting-of-diagnostics >>> says: "This option, which defaults to on when a color-capable terminal is >>> detected". Isn't xterm "a color-capable terminal"? >>> >>> If I give -fcolor-diagnostics explicitly, all works as expected. But why >>> must I do that? GCC uses colors by default. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cfe-users mailing list >>> cfe-users@lists.llvm.org >>> http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-users >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > cfe-users mailing list > cfe-users@lists.llvm.org > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-users >
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