Oops, it was really stupid of me to forget to tell with which compiler I got this error. Here it is. Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/egcs-2.91.28/specs gcc version egcs-2.91.28 19980508 (gcc2 ss-980502 experimental) I apologise for being so sloppy, Mark.