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Help!

	My initial attempts to use gcc2.7.0 on Linux 1.2.13(Slakware 3.0) have
repeatedly ended in failure.  I've been trying to compile a c program
I've written to access mSQL and the shareware program cgiparse.c with
gcc with the following commands:

1)  gcc -o cgiparse cgiparse.c

2) gcc cgiparse.c

3) cc cgiparse.c

4) gcc -L/var/httpd/lib -lmsql getmsql.c

5) all the above again where I explicitedly copy the needed .h and
libxxx.a files to both the local directory I am executing gcc from as
well as the system directories /usr/lib and /usr/include.  I've also
gone so far as to 'chmod a+wrx' all files involved plus I've tried
absolute and relative pathes to files in combinations of #include<...>
and #include"...".

	In every single case the command below informs me that the linker is
unable to locate these libraries (libxxx.a) and include (xxx.h) files.
That is I receive no errors when I stop gcc just before the final link
stage with the -c switch:

gcc -c -o cgiparse cgiparse.c

	The error I get when I try to have gcc do linking is the following:

gcc -c cgiparse cgiparse.c
/tmp/cca004141.o(.text+0xe27): undefined reference to 'HTUnEscape'
/tmp/cca004141.o(.text+0x105c): undefined reference to 'HTUnEscape'
/tmp/cca004141.o(.text+0x1074): undefined reference to 'HTUnEscape'
...
(etc.... every lib function call generates one of these 'undefined
reference errors)

THE $5,000 QUESTION IS:

	Why can't gcc find my library and header files to link my program?
Where are the pathes stored that gcc uses to search for these files?
What am I doing wrong?

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