On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 11:43:12AM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote: > Just made an update to my system, but now (among other things) gcc refuses > to work.
You mean "as" refuses to work. > the simple helloworld program doesn't compile. > > I do gcc -o hello hello.c and it tell's me : > > as: can't load library 'libbfd.so.2.7.0.9' "as" is part of the "binutils" package. The binutils package depends on a libbfd* library. Apperantly you don't have that library installed, or ld.so cannot find it. Try running "ldconfig"; if that doesn't help, "dpkg --status binutils" will tell you precisely what library "as" needs (and "dpkg --audit" should tell you it is missing). HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .