Flavius Copaciu wrote: > The question is: how do I tell âmakeâ to use gcc 2.96 instead of gcc > 3.3.2 ? I don't have a 2.4.x tree around any more, but I don't think that this has changed much... In linux/Makefile, there are four lines HOSTCC = gcc HOSTCXX = g++ HOSTCFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer HOSTCXXFLAGS = -O2 (You may not have the CXX lines: IIRC these are only for the new 2.6 make xconfig, which needs bits of KDE, which means C++). Try those. HTH, James. -- E-mail address: james@ | For every complex problem, there is a solution that westexe.demon.co.uk | is simple, neat, and wrong.