Solved problem with "cannot open crt1.o"

[Richard Dybowski]

I have worked out that the cause of the linker error message

    /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

was due to the fact that I had not installed the kernel-headers and 
glibc-devel packages. This I have done via the corresponding RPMs available 
with RedHat 6.1.

Are there any other fundamental packages that I need to install in order to 
develop C and C++ programs using GCC?

Richard
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