We have user home directories that are shared across 32-bit and 64-bit systems. We have setup a wrapper script around gcc/g++ so that our 64-bit systems compile in 32-bit mode by default; basically, the "-m32" option is just inserted into a user's gcc/g++ command. This works fine if the user is not linking against a library (e.g. "gcc -o hello hello.c"). However, if they need to link against a library, they get an error like this: [user@host dir]$ gcc -o sslnumbers -lssl sslnumbers.c /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libssl.so when searching for -lssl/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libssl.a when searching for -lssl /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Obviously, it cannot find the 32-bit version of the "ssl" library. This occurs because their in fact is no "/usr/lib/libssl.so", although "/usr/lib/libssl3.so" *does* exist. Further, as far as I know there is no package that includes the necessary "/usr/lib/libssl.so" link. Is there a way to have the linker find the necessary 32-bit library (other than manually creating a link)? Thanks, Jeremy Dreese -- amd64-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list