Problem solved,
Thanx to Peter A. Friend

Thomas Singleton

Thomas Singleton [Eidos] <singleton@skynet.be> a écrit dans le message :
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> hello,
> in order to follow a book's test procedure to see if the compiling/linking
> of C programs work, i created a hello.c
> file with the famous 'printf("Hello World!");' then (always following the
> instructions) did :
> $gcc -c -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE hello.c -o hello.o
> then
> $gcc -c hello.o hello.c
> which reported :
> gcc: hello.o : linker input file unused since linking not done
>
> i made a search for that message on gcc.gnu.org, and found a few linked
> messages but they were all about merging two or more source into the same
> object which is not my case, so i decided to post this
>
> Thank you for any advices
> Thomas
>
> i'm using RH 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5-15 and gcc --version reported :
> egcs-2.91.66
>
>