I am trying to build boost on solaris9 where there is only a partial GCC installation. Version 3.4.6 of g++ is installed but the vendor linker is the only linker available (this cannot be changed, there are no SAs and I do not know the root password). I have already found there are lots of compilation errors unless I say -with-icu=no". But I am getting errors now when it tries to invoke the linker. It looks like it assumes the GCC (binutils) linker is available if the GCC compiler is being used. Here's what I get: ...updating 70 targets... gcc.link.dll bin.v2/libs/serialization/build/gcc-3.4.6/debug/threading-multi/libboost_seri alization-gcc34-mt-d-1_34_1.so.1.34.1 /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- - /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- - /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- g ld: warning: option -o appears more than once, first setting taken /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- - usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?] file(s) [-64] enforce a 64-bit link-edit [rest of output snipped] I presume this error would go away if the GCC ld was used. Unfortunately I cannot test that theory because I cannot install ld. Just adding the GCC ld to my PATH on the front does not stop the vendor ld from being used. I suspect that because g++ was linked using the vendor linker, it will always use the vendor linker. In which case I think there is a problem in the boost build. Regards, Andrew Marlow ---- There is an emerald here the size of a plover's egg! Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html --- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Please refer to http://www.db.com/en/content/eu_disclosures.htm for additional EU corporate and regulatory disclosures.