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Hi,

Iv'e been using Slackware 2.3 linux for six months now (kernel 1.2.8 
and then 1.3.32) when I decided to upgrade my C compiler - mainly because 
2.6.3 is reported to produce buggy kernels.

I downloaded the latrest gcc, libc, libg++, binutils manual pages and 
ld.so from a tsx-11 mirror, and successfully installed them on my system 
(in the sense that all the a.out stuff is still working and all the new 
stuff is untarred into its default place)

When I try to do - 

gcc hello.c

the linker can't find libc.a. What works is:

gcc hello.c -L/usr/lib -lc
or
gcc hello.c /usr/lib/libc.a

In addition, when I compile using shared libraries:

gcc -shared hello.c 

the compilation and linkage goes well, but I get a segmentation fault 
when I run the program.

This all seems like a matter of library location. I would like to somehow 
tell gcc to look for libc.a in /usr/lib, or move libc.a elsewhere so it 
can find it. I'm also concerned with the shared library problem - here 
I'm really in the dark.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,
Uri.