Linking with gcc

Applications Programming
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Forgive as I am new to the gcc compiler and to linux. I am trying to compile/link a program for the first time and am receiving an error complaining about the crtbegin.o file. I use the -v option and get the following:

Using built-in specs.
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/inf
o --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-
dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i486-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.2
ld --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_i386 -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -o BCPProductSummary.x /usr/lib/gcc-lib/../crt1.o /usr/l
ib/gcc-lib/../crti.o crtbegin.o -L/home/jab910/Work/AIX/Source/Common -L/home/jab910/Work/AIX/Source/Messaging -L/pcs/bin
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/.. -ldb2 -lmqm -lCommon BCPProductSummarySetup.o BCPProductSummaryProcess.o -lgcc -lgcc_eh -lc -lgcc -l
gcc_eh crtend.o /usr/lib/gcc-lib/../crtn.o
ld: cannot open crtbegin.o: No such file or directory
done
jab910@ossdb2:~/Work/AIX/Source/BCPProductSummary> locate crtbegin.o

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/3.2.2/crtbegin.o

The /usr/lib/gcc-lib/../crti.o crtbegin.o are listed in the ld but can it can not find it. Why is that???

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This probably relates to how gcc was installed. The compiler expects certain files to be in specified directories - crt0.o crtbegin.o are called startup files. C requires certain things to happen before the main() function is called.

I don't know where suse gcc expects the startup object modules to be. Someone else here may know.