I searched through the manuals and googled to no avail. I tried compiling some stuff on my amd64 box for an ia32 box, using -m32 and and appropriate -march. The resulting libraries worked fine when compiled static, but failed when compiled dynamic. The destination box's executables and libraryies report: foo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped whereas the files generated by my amd64 box report: bar: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped In readelf format, that is: OS/ABI: UNIX - System V vs: OS/ABI: UNIX - Linux I tried using -Wl,--hash-style=sysv, but the libraries and executables still say Linux rather than SYSV. (The .o files say SYSV.) How do I force the former os/abi? -JimC -- James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6