Hi We are building a shared library on Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) Kernel 2.2.14-5.0 on an i686.We are using gcc version egcs-2.91.66 and GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.22) for making our shared library. We want to export only specific external symbols of our library and want to suppress all other symbols. What are the various Linker options for doing the same (I tried --exclude-symbol option , but the linker gives unrecognized option `--exclude-symbols' error.) The GCC documentation says that `--exclude-symbols' is an option specific to i386 PE targets. Can I use this option for the my above mentioned platform??? Is there any other way also to suppress the symbols in Linux(version-script is I think another option, but I don't know the format of writing version scripts). Romil