gaussian

[STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT)]

> 
> Hi there,
> This is my first message to the list, so don't be too rough on me :-)
> I am trying to copile gaussian 03 (a software for quantum 
> mechanics on 
> chemistry) on fedora 3 but i am having problems with the 
> library crtbeginS.o
> ld never finds the file and i get the message
> /usr/bin/ld: /crtbeginS.o: No such file: No such file or directory
> I installed the libs that provide this file and the file is in 
> /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.2/crtbeginS.o, apart from that i 
> installed compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.118 to have the older version 
> of the lib 
> but ld still can't use it.
> 
> Needed to say that the "older" crtbeginS.o is under 
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/ and i added the 
> path to ld.so.conf
> 
> can anyone help with this please?
> 
> Thank you so much,
> nb
> 
> --
> Nelson Brito
> http://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/ntbrito
> 
> 
Just a a check, make sure you are doing the link with
gcc rather than ld directly.  gcc does some setup work
before calling ld.  I could not produce your exact message,
but stuff shows up missing if you try to use ld directly.

Bob Styma