arguments file to gcc

Question

On Linux, is there a way to pass arguments to gcc from a file. That is to gave file like compile.args

% cat compile.args
-g3
-ggdb
 -pedantic
 -pedantic-errors
 -Wall
 -Werror
 -O0
 vec1.cpp
 -o vec1

and then give this file to g++/gcc. I can do this using cat compile.args | xargs g++, is they any other way? Does gcc support this?

thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, just run gcc @compile.args

Answer 2

For verbosity, also something like this should work (depending on running shell)

g++ `cat compiler.args|xargs`

or

COMPILE_ARGS=`cat compiler.args|xargs` g++ ${COMPILE_ARGS}