Thanks. I knew that ldd would list the static libraries. What I am looking for is an automated way to transform the dynamic linking command into the static link command. I guess I can parse the output of ldd through a perl script that generates "-llinux-vdso -lidn ...". But this seems so primitive. Isn't there an elegant way to ask the linker to do that work for you? -- Charlie Zender, Department of Earth System Science University of California, Irvine (949) 891-2429 :)