How to find all possible locations for libraries and header files on any distro?

I found that the location of libraries and header files are very different on different distributions. For Example on Fedora you have /usr/lib64/libbfd.a while on Ubuntu you have /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbfd.a. Or on Fedora you have /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/include/stdatomic.h while on Ubuntu you have /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/include/stdatomic.h Is there a way to know in which locations you have to look without maintaining a list of locations for every distribution?