A web search tells me this is an old bug but I'm just building a new box (web install of wood and I've built a 2.4.18 kernel for K7) and it has shown up in my gcc install. >gcc --version 2.95.4 >ls /usr/lib | grep std libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.a libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++-libc6.2-2.a.3 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.3 libstdc++.so.3.0.4 The STL compliant versions of compare are missing when g++ is invoked though they are there when gcc is invoked. I'm looking for some advice before I start changing things. Thanks, Greg Martin