I was seeing the exact same failure on attempting to compile the recent 8-23-2003 cygwin snapshot as Peter Garrone http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg01381.html I was compiling under stock cygwin 1.5.2 with all the experimental packages of 8/27/2003 -- including Perl 5.8.0-3. It seems to be caused by this patch to speclib. http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/speclib.diff?r1=1.9&r2=1.10&cvsroot=src Removing the PERL portion allowed everything to compile, though now the "ld: final link failed: File truncated" has returned when compiling GCC. :( I'm willing to test any potential solutions to this problem Kelley Cook -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/