Raymond Toy writes: If you read my rant, you know it wasn't easy :-). Seriously, I configured gcc with --with-gnu-ld=no, built and installed it, then renamed all versions of GNU ld, and gcc -v test.c then showed: ld: Software Generation Utilities - Solaris/ELF (3.0) <fiddle> It looks like the rebuilding step isn't necessary. I took my original 2.5.1 gcc, renamed all the versions of gnu ld below its installation path, and it started using /usr/ccs/bin/ld. Robert -- The above are my opinions, and my opinions only.