Currently we use two utilities strip-inc-dirs.sh and strip-lib-dirs.sh to remove “system” libraries from THORN_INC_DIRS and THORN_LIB_DIRS in ExternalLibraries. However the list used is hard-coded and not always correct (see eg #2528).

It may be better to:

1. make the list of directories to strip option list variables
2. try to auto-detect them in the Cactus know-architectures files

To auto-detect on GNU/Linux with gcc/ld one can try and use the suggestion on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9922949/how-to-print-the-ldlinker-search-path and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17939930/finding-out-what-the-gcc-include-path-is namely

gcc -print-search-dirs

and

echo | gcc -E -Wp,-v -

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2532/try-and-auto-detect-system-directories-to