c program cant hello to world !

[Sriram Rajamanuri]

Hi,
 
I have Redhat 7.0 with gcc 2.93 installed on it. i 
have written a simple c program, which when compiled says,
 
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or 
directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 
when given the -v option, the result is 
:
 
Reading specs from 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red 
Hat Linux 7.0)  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/cpp0 -lang-c -v 
-D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUC_M INOR__=96 -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=0 -D__ELF__ -Dunix 
-Dlinux -D__ELF__ -D__unix__ -D__linux__ -D__unix -D__linux -Asystem(posix) 
-Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386) -Di38 6 -D__i386 -D__i386__ -D__tune_i386__ t.c 
/tmp/cctcVSrQ.i GNU CPP version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) 
(cpplib)  (i386 Linux/ELF) ignoring nonexistent directory 
"/usr/local/include" ignoring nonexistent directory 
"/usr/i386-redhat-linux/include" #include "..." search starts 
here: #include <...> search starts 
here:  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/include  /usr/include End 
of search list.  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/cc1 
/tmp/cctcVSrQ.i -quiet -dumpbase t. c -version -o /tmp/cc4ncMGy.s GNU C 
version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) (i386-redhat-linux) compiled by GNU 
C version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0).  as -V -Qy -o 
/tmp/cc3T1e8h.o /tmp/cc4ncMGy.s GNU assembler version 2.10.90 
(i386-redhat-linux) using BFD version 
2.10.0.18  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/collect2 -m elf_i386 
-dynamic-linker /l ib/ld-linux.so.2 crt1.o crti.o 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/crtbegin. o 
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96 
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux /2.96/../../.. /tmp/cc3T1e8h.o -lgcc -lc 
-lgcc /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linu x/2.96/crtend.o 
crtn.o /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or 
directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 
i hope some one has answer for this..
 
Thks and Regards
Sriram