This is a bug in gcc. The string is hard coded in: gcc/config/pa/pa64-hpux.h
/* The libgcc_stub.a and milli.a libraries need to come last. */ #undef LINK_GCC_C_SEQUENCE_SPEC #define LINK_GCC_C_SEQUENCE_SPEC "\ %G %L %G %{!nostdlib:%{!nodefaultlibs:%{!shared:-lgcc_stub}\ /usr/lib/pa20_64/milli.a}}" Andrew.