Hi, I am wondering if any of you boost gurus can help with this problem. I have compiled and installed boost using gcc 2.95.3 on a linux redhat 7 machine. The install actually fails on some targets. I get this message at the end of the install: ...failed updating 24 targets... ...skipped 48 targets... ...updated 2343 targets... But I am guessing that this is expected behavior for an old compiler. Anyway, I am interested in the filesystem library at this time, and so I tried compiling the simple_ls.cpp example. When I compile using the default linking (which uses shared objects), the program works fine, but when I compile using the -static flag to limit to static linking, I get a lot of undefined reference errors (see below). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out why this would happen. Any suggestions on how to debug this or as to what might be going wrong would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Daniel /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o: In function `main': /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0xc): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::initial_path(void)' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x2c): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::native(basic_string<char, string_char_traits<char>, __default_alloc_template<true, 0> > const &)' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x3e): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::path(char const *, bool (*)(basic_string<char, string_char_traits<char>, __default_alloc_template<true, 0> > const &))' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x50): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::system_complete(boost::filesystem::path const &)' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0xe8): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::exists(boost::filesystem::path const &)' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x10d): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::native_file_string(void) const' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x188): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::is_directory(boost::filesystem::path const &)' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x1ad): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::native_directory_string(void) const' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x257): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::is_directory(boost::filesystem::path const &)' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x289): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::leaf(void) const' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x2f5): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::leaf(void) const' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x427): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::native_file_string(void) const' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.text+0x5ab): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::leaf(void) const' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o: In function `boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::directory_iterator(boost::filesystem::path const &)': /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::gnu.linkonce.t.(boost::filesystem::path const &)+0x26): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::dir_itr_init(boost::shared_ptr<boost::filesystem::detail::dir_itr_imp> &, boost::filesystem::path const &)' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o: In function `boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::dereference(void) const': /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::gnu.linkonce.t.dereference(void) const+0x12): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::dir_itr_dereference(boost::shared_ptr<boost::filesystem::detail::dir_itr_imp> const &)' /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o: In function `boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::increment(void)': /tmp/ccU0ehTU.o(.boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::gnu.linkonce.t.increment(void)+0x12): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::dir_itr_increment(boost::shared_ptr<boost::filesystem::detail::dir_itr_imp> &)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status