Eric,
I give you permission, in fact I insist on it, to spend the rest of the week laughing at me!! Because I'm laughing right now, and I expect you to as well. It just won't be fair for me to laugh at myself alone. ROFLMAO!!

Damnit! I found the problem! It was in /etc/ld.so.conf. I had put a line in there which was directing gcc to look in /usr/i486-slackware-linux (as well as another toolchain I built myself). None of this was a problem before I switched to 64-bit, because everything was where it was supposed to be for 32-bit compiles. I knew something somewhere had to be wrong with why my system kept looking in the wrong place. Finally, I remembered to look there and see what settings I had in place.

So it wasn't so much that my system was over-customized. But rather that it had been optimized for my compiling against a 64-bit kernel from before. But I just checked, and even after editing that out, my system still comes up unknown.

So in between your roaring with laughter, do you have any other ideas!

Shingoshi

Maybe you'll have to refrain from laughing. I think the required lines were already in my /etc/ld.so.conf. I later saw that they were there at the bottom of the file. It most likely was done as part of my 64-bit installation. So I still have no idea what's happening. What other files could possibly contain the necessary information?

Well, it was still a good laugh for me.

Shingoshi