Hello, *** I just got this problem with mandrake : gcc -O20 -ffast-math -mno-ieee-fp -D_REENTRANT -fsigned-char -fomit-frame-pointer -DUSE_MEMORY_H -static -o decoder_example decoder_example.o ../lib/.libs/libvorbis.a -L/usr/local//lib -lm /usr/local/lib/libogg.a /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm *** I found a thread (Sun Sep 12 13:44:10 PDT 2004) about this problem and this is the answer : "Yep, this is what I was referring to. It's looking for libm.a, the static version of the standard math library, so it can use it to make a static executable. On Debian, this is /usr/lib/libm.a, and is part of the libc6-dev package. You should be able to install something similar for mandrake to resolve this issue." *** So my mail is just to say that for mandrake, you need to install "glibc-static-devel" package in order to get libm.a package Regards, Xavier -- E-mail: ctrl.alt.sup@free.fr xizard@chez.com Please no longer use xizard@enib.fr, this e-mail will be removed soon. Homepage: http://xizard.free.fr http://www.chez.com/xizard/