I suppose I should summarize what this problem was in case it's useful to anyone else searching the archives.
A buggy cross-build process did not create libc.so. The static linker didn't find libc.so so it silently used libc.a instead. Libc.a is not built with -fPIC so the load problem showed up. Thanks for your comments. Jim. -- Jim Lemke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Orillia, Ontario