On 27 July 2015 at 19:03, Ricardo Telichevesky wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to compile gcc 4.9.2 on rhel5. Eventually got it compiled. Not sure > what I did wrong, but in certain cases when using > gcc -c ... the compiler "sticks" some unwanted symbols like: > > _strcspn_c1 > _strcpsn_c2 > _strspn_c1 > > that obviously cause troubles when linking because each .o has this pesky > stuff on it. Does it ring any bell? Anyone would know what triggers the > compiler to automagically stick those symbols as globals in the code? No idea. How did you configure gcc? ('gcc -v' will tell you).