Dear Sirs, I have pulled down the Alliance design software to do a quick evaluation of the software. The problem is that the 'configure' script does not successfully complete. The config.out file is copied to the end of this message. Please note the following: 1) This is a SUN Ultra 1 running Solaris. 2) I am sure the library path points to the directory where the files mentioned exist. This comes from my .cshrc file. The GNU installation we have may not be a common set-up. 3) I am not sure why the library path does not show up in the compile line (gcc....). 4) It also seems that the 'conftest.c' file is not in the directory either. I am not sure if this file is copied from somewhere else. Thank you for your help. Regards, Chuck Pilch <<<<<< config.out file This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:537: checking for platform configure:554: checking whether make sets ${MAKE} configure:586: checking %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Binaries configure:598: checking for gcc configure:675: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O ) works configure:689: gcc -o conftest -O conftest.c 1&5 ld: fatal: file crt1.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: file crti.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: file crtbegin.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: file crtend.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: file crtn.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to conftest configure: failed program was: #line 685 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" main(){return(0);}