Thanks for all your help so far. Still no luck. I compiled and installed GCC-3.2.3 with the following: &>mkdir obj &>cd obj &>../gcc-3.2.3/configure &>make bootstrap &>make install i then go to install glibc-2.3.2. i downloaded glibc-2.3.2 and glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.2. and uncompressed them and ran: $>mkdir compile $>cd compile $>../configure --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads --prefix=/usr $>make it errors on make. I can't figure it out, i would be most greatful for help. i have attacked the last few lines and error message that i got. Hope someone can make more sence of it then me. Thanks Zippo