I have some tools which I use on my machine, and which I wish also to use on my GF's machine. She runs Debian. I find that I cannot use images built on my machine, as it has later versions of the shared libs on it, and at program load time I get reports of missing shared objects. Surely there is a way to build my programs so that they do not depend on the SOs in this manner. I've read the man page for ld and for gcc, yet haven't managed to figure this out. I thought that using gcc -o hellostatic hello.c -Wl,-static might do the job, but this fails with /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Somebody please explain to me how to build an image on my machine which will run on another distro. Thanks Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!