I hope someone can look at this and tell me where I've gone into the weeds..... Having more or less successfully bootstrapped 3.4.0 on AIX 5.2 (I say successfully because it built, the binaries run and I can compile C programs) I'm having trouble with linking C++ programs. To wit I hace the following test case: #include <iostream> int main () { std::cout << "Success!" << std::endl; } Pretty simple, right? I compile it like so: g++ -v xxx.C -o xxx and get: Reading specs from /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/specs Configured with: /oracle_staging02/gcc/gcc-3.4.0/configure --prefix=/opt/gcc -enable-language=c,c++ Thread model: aix gcc version 3.4.0 /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../libexec/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/cc1plus -quiet -v -iprefix /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/ -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=1 -D_LARGE_FILE_API -D_ALL_SOURCE xxx.C -quiet -dumpbase xxx.C -auxbase xxx -version -o /tmp//cchxOvy3.s ignoring nonexistent directory "/oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../../../powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/include" ignoring duplicate directory "/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../../../include/c++/3.4.0" ignoring duplicate directory "/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../../../include/c++/3.4.0/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0" ignoring duplicate directory "/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../../../include/c++/3.4.0/backward" ignoring duplicate directory "/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../../../powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/include" #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../../../include/c++/3.4.0 /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../../../include/c++/3.4.0/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0 /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../../../include/c++/3.4.0/backward /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/include /usr/local/include /opt/gcc/include /usr/include End of search list. GNU C++ version 3.4.0 (powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0) compiled by GNU C version 3.4.0. GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=32 --param ggc-min-heapsize=4096 as -u -mppc -o /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o /tmp//cchxOvy3.s /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../libexec/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/collect2 -bpT:0x10000000 -bpD:0x20000000 -btextro -bnodelcsect -o xxx /lib/crt0.o -L/oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0 -L/oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc -L/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0 -L/oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../.. -L/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/../../.. /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/libgcc.a /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/libgcc_eh.a -lc /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/libgcc.a /oracle_staging02/gcc-install/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.0/libgcc_eh.a /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x1ec):xxx.C: undefined reference to `.std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::size() const' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x26c):xxx.C: undefined reference to `.std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::operator[](unsigned long) const' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x2e4):xxx.C: undefined reference to `.std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::operator[](unsigned long) const' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x334):xxx.C: undefined reference to `.std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::operator[](unsigned long) const' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x3f6):xxx.C: undefined reference to `std::cout' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x3fc):xxx.C: undefined reference to `.std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::operator<< <std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, char const*)' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x40e):xxx.C: undefined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::endl<char, std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&)' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x410):xxx.C: undefined reference to `.std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >::operator<<(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& (*)(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&))' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x50c):xxx.C: undefined reference to `.std::ios_base::Init::Init()' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.pr+0x538):xxx.C: undefined reference to `.std::ios_base::Init::~Init()' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.tc+0x0):xxx.C: undefined reference to `std::cout' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.tc+0x0):xxx.C: undefined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::endl<char, std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&)' /tmp//cc9IZWc2.o(.rw+0x11):xxx.C: undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Using the AIX ld get's very similar messages. So... if I've been a dunce, it's OK to say so. But any and all advice will be gratefully accepted. best regards, Gerard Bras