g77 and gcc compiling errors

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I am attempting to compile programs in c or fortran and  keep getting
the following error:

gcc test.c or
g77 test.f

and I get:

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

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am running RedHat 6.1.

Pablo Santos