Since I'm trying to Boostify (is that a legitimate word now? - heck you can verb anything these days) my code, I decided to try bjam: Gulp, having been weaned on automake and fiends [sic] it looks like it should be easy enough, but I've fallen at the first hurdle: In Jamroot: using gcc : 4.4 : g++-4 ; exe example_basic : example_basic.cpp : <include>. ; The <include>. line, as I understand it will mean the #include <blah> that I use will pick up stuff in the same directory as the source file (this seems ok). My problem is the link stage, $ bjam example_basic ...found 53 targets... ...updating 1 target... gcc.link bin/gcc-4.4/debug/example_basic /usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: --start-group collect2: ld returned 1 exit status "g++-4" -o "bin/gcc-4.4/debug/example_basic" -Wl,--start- group "bin/gcc-4.4/debug/example_basic.o" -Wl,-Bstatic -Wl,- Bdynamic -Wl,--end-group -g ...failed gcc.link bin/gcc-4.4/debug/example_basic... I've no idea where all this --start-group stuff comes from -- never seen it before. Any ideas? -ed ------------------------------------------------ "No more boom and bust." -- Dr. J. G. Brown, 1997