> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create >executables. My memory of the last couple of egcs/glibc installs is that the /lib/cpp symlink is not updated, and root had better have umask 022 or permissions don't get set right. Even with umask 022, /usr/lib/gcc-lib/... has an include directory owned by whoever did the compiling, and permissions also unchanged. And I do remember getting that strange message, but I'm not at all sure if it was caused by the mis-behaving install. (I sent email to the maintainers, but they alleged it was my fault, and it hasn't been fixed in the year since then.) -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = 91 B3 94 7C E9 E8 76 2D E1 63 51 AA A0 48 89 2F ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o